“The 13th, 14th and 15th amendments were designed to enshrine Lincoln’s promise of a new America.” The amendment’s first ...

which argued that unborn children are “persons” within the meaning of Section 1 of the 14th Amendment. We’re taking this opportunity to respond to both posts, beginning with Adler’s ...

These efforts were relying on a provision of the Constitution, in Article II, Section 1, that states ... In the late 1860s, when the 14th Amendment was written and ratified, the same was ...

which formed the basis for the examples I cited from the scholarship on the history of Section 3: Article I, Section 5 provided, even before the Fourteenth Amendment, that “each House shall be ...

A Guatemalan woman who gave birth in Arizona shortly after crossing the border puts a human face on the topic of automatic citizenship for her baby.

Section 8, the enforcement clause of the Fourteenth Amendment grants to Congress the power to pass legislation directed at effectuating the provisions of Sections 1 through 4 of the amendment.

But Raskin, previously a tenured constitutional law professor at American University, said it is an open question whether that section of the 14th Amendment ... for example, Donald Trump has ...

The Supreme Court would likely have to rule on the case. Section 3 of the 14th Amendment dates back to the Civil War. The intent was to prevent former leaders of the Confederacy, who engaged in ...

It’s safe to say he is one of the top experts on it. “The 14th amendment is the big post-Civil War amendment,” he said. “Section Three is the part we are concerned with. It says ...