Ratified on July 9, 1868, the 14th Amendment is a cornerstone of the U.S. Constitution that granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the U.S.—including former slaves—and guaranteed ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Demonstrators from across the country will gather outside the Supreme Court on July 9 to celebrate the 158th birthday of the 14th ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Sunday said "birthright tourism" has "devalued" the 14th Amendment after President Trump called on ...

That is the phrase, stuck in the middle of the first sentence of the first section of the 14th Amendment, that President Donald Trump is seeking to redefine as part of his campaign to overturn the ...

The movie, I'm pleased to report, exerts the same kind of historical/topical force that "13th" did. DuVernay, while she works in an extremely accessible and mainstream way, has a singular gift for ...

To rejoin the Union, Georgia had little choice but to follow the requirements of Reconstruction, even if it did so reluctantly. So, in December 1865, Georgia ratified the 13th Amendment, helping reach ...

Two years after the Civil War, the Reconstruction Acts of 1867 divided the South into five military districts, where new state governments, based on universal manhood suffrage, were to be established.

In 2005, the Supreme Court’s 14th Amendment jurisprudence seemed at equipoise. The equal protection clause permitted the use of race to promote diversity in classrooms. The due process clause ...

I am a historian. More important for this debate, I am a descendant of the babies of slaves — the first Black Americans whose citizenship was guaranteed by the 14th Amendment. That is why I have ...

A decision from Maine’s Superior Court could then be appealed to the Maine Supreme Judicial Court or the U.S. Supreme Court.

Demonstrators from across the country will gather outside the Supreme Court on July 9 to celebrate the 158th birthday of the 14th Amendment and protest what they call attempts by the Trump ...

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