The Fourteenth Amendment represented a great expansion ... the spirit—if not the letter—of the Court’s decision. For example, in 2011 the state of Alabama enacted a law requiring school ...

Thus, the Equal Protection Clause can be understood only as an organic part of the Fourteenth Amendment and in the broader context of all the Reconstruction amendments. Under current Supreme Court ...

He wrote: “The 14th Amendment Right to American Citizenship never had anything to do with modern-day ‘gate-crashers,’ illegal ...

For example, a law that prohibits burglary ... of children not accountable for their disabling status.” The Fourteenth Amendment allowed states to disenfranchise those convicted of rebellion ...

Adopted in 1868 following the Civil War, the 14th Amendment grants citizenship to “all persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof.” It was ...