Of the Civil War Amendments, the Fourteenth Amendment had the most far-reaching effect on the meaning of the Constitution. It conferred both national and state citizenship upon birth, thereby ...

The massive amount of life lost in the Civil War could no longer be justified ... aspect of the anti-slavery revolution. The 13th Amendment, passed in truly extraordinary circumstances, through ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Damn straight we have to fix that! Obviously, the Civil War amendments were exclusively about slavery -- as the Supreme Court has repeatedly held. The trick was to write an amendment stating that ...

It took the post-Civil War constitutional amendments to overturn that ruling. The 14th Amendment was born not only of a Union victory and of the radical Republicans, but also out of decades of ...

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 ...