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 ...

The14th Amendment was intended to correct the moral wrongs of slavery. But it has been misunderstood and reinterpreted in cases involving workdays, schools, train cars and birth control.

After the Justice Department filed a written defense of the president's birthright citizenship order, some people feared an ...

As Garrett Epps puts it in Democracy Reborn: The Fourteenth Amendment and the Fight for Equal Rights in Post-Civil War America, “for the first time in American history, the [Fourteenth ...

Brad Jones, a professor of political science at the University of California Davis, told Newsweek. Birthright citizenship has been interpreted, repeatedly, as an integral part of the 14th Amendment.

His executive order goes beyond his presidential power, given the 14th Amendment. On the first day of his second term as ...

Before the Civil War, states didn’t necessarily have to follow the provisions stated in the Bill of Rights; only Congress had to. The 14th Amendment changed that. “This second sentence of the ...

It was the 14th Amendment to the Constitution — known as the birthright amendment and intended to provide citizenship and equal rights protection to people recently freed from slavery — that ...