If original intent means anything when understanding the Constitution, it pays to listen to what the folks in the Senate said when debating the 14th Amendment and its clause establishing ...

The conservative majority wants to apply a “history and tradition” test to the Second Amendment. But whose history—and what ...

Leaving birthright citizenship to the Roberts court is walking into a minefield – legislation is the smarter route to end ...

According to the original penners of the 14th Amendment, that clause refers to citizens expressing allegiance to the U.S. and U.S. only and no other country. Immigrants illegally entering the U.S ...

This was eliminated by the 14th Amendment, which established equal protection of the laws and due process for all. Critics of the Tea Party point to this clause in the original constitution as ...

Nor could it reflect the “original public meaning” of the 14th Amendment, when it was ratified in 1868, as claimed by Barnett and Wurman. The first significant federal immigration law was not ...

Trump's executive order deviates entirely from the historical meaning of the 14th amendment. This amendment, a product of the post-Civil War constitutional revolution, guaranteed that every person ...

As with the regulatory takings doctrine, it is possible that the original meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment incorporates a public use requirement against the states even if the Fifth Amendment ...

From the August 21, 2023, edition of Salem Media Group's The Charlie Kirk Show, as broadcast on Real America's Voice CHARLIE KIRK (HOST): The 14th Amendment was necessary for some things ...

When the court addresses that question — which it almost certainly must — it should consider the 14th Amendment’s original purpose and the common-law principle of “jus soli,” or ...

Does the Civil War-era insurrection clause of the 14th Amendment disqualify Donald Trump from holding higher office? The court will hear a… It's the first time the nation's highest court will ...