No person shall be a Senator or Repre ­sentative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice­President, or hold any office, civil or military ... may direct. This amendment shall not be so construed ...

As part of a crass strategy to appeal to anti-immigrant paranoia and racism, Republican leaders are now assaulting the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution ... The pre–Civil War doctrine ...

The amendment, which formally became a part of the Constitution in July 1868 ... the crowning social-legal achievement of the American Civil War of 1861-65. The Amendment’s first section ...

The 14th Amendment is known as a Reconstruction amendment, because it was added to the Constitution after the Civil War in 1868. That places it at an important historical crossroads, when ...

Frederick Douglass, who argued that the Constitution ... Amendment to protect the right to vote regardless of race, amendments that guaranteed political and civil equality. The Civil War ...

The 14th Amendment sought to rectify these injustices by enshrining birthright citizenship into the Constitution. The Citizenship Clause directly overturned ... ad Legal historian Kenneth Mack tells ...

8116, dated March 29, 1996, “The Civil Procedure Code of the Republic of Albania,” has been submitted for approval to the Albanian Assembly. These amendments are part of a comprehensive initiative ...