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 author says executive order stripping US citizenship from children born in this country, protected by the 14th Amendment, could imperil other constitutional amendments.

The Trump administration has taken the president's battle against birthright citizenship for undocumented immigrants.to the Supreme Court.

“Thomas Jefferson said men were created equal, but the original Constitution betrayed that promise by allowing for slavery,” says Jeffrey Rosen. “The 13th, 14th and 15th amendments were ...

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 ...

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 ...

In its stead, the Fourteenth Amendment was proposed ... It should be noted that whatever might have been the true original meaning of the clause, no scholar has accepted Justice Miller’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 ...

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 ...