Donald Trump’s executive order purporting to end birthright citizenship is an attempt to reverse one outcome of the Civil War, by creating a permanent underclass of stateless people who have no rights ...

On January 31, 1865, the U.S. Congress passed the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, which ended slavery in the United States, and sent it to states for ratification. The amendment reads as follows: ...

A decline in public participation, overdependence on centrally sponsored schemes, and politicisation through the engagement ...

The 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution outlawed involuntary servitude but it also made an exception for convicts.

President Donald Trump is seeking to end birthright citizenship, a constitutional right enshrined by the 14th Amendment. We asked two experts in constitutional and immigration law to walk us through ...

The Fourteenth Amendment was the product of a democratic revolutionary change that sought to put the Constitution on a ...

and the tendency to view the Constitution as an almost sacred document that created an exceptional nation, are powerful but not always historically helpful ways to conceive of the 13th Amendment ...

A reading of the 14th Amendment grants Congress the authority to end birthright citizenship, the Constitution Leadership Initiative’s Gary Porter writes in a guest column ...

That right is enshrined in the 14th Amendment to the Constitution ... Founding,” the passage of the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments to the Constitution in the wake of the Civil War.

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Washington D.C. (WHTM) On January 31, 1865, the U.S. Congress passed the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, which ended slavery in the United States, and sent it to states for ratification.

“Thomas Jefferson said men were created equal, but the original Constitution betrayed that promise by allowing for slavery,” says Jeffrey Rosen. “The 13th, 14th and 15th amendments were ...