It may not be as oft-quoted as the First Amendment or as contested as the Second Amendment, but the 14th Amendment to the ...

Just a few months earlier, Congress had passed the 14th Amendment and sent it to the states for ratification. In the second section of the amendment, the antislavery Republicans sought to ...

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 ...

These states attorney generals’ argument is that birthright citizenship is a right granted to anyone born on American soil, by the 14th Amendment. But does it? The 14th Amendment to the U.S ...

The 14th Amendment made the U.S. a place where every child was born equal under the law. That might be about to change. Credit...Photo illustration by Ricardo Tomas Supported by By Marcela Valdes ...