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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

But does the 14th Amendment speak to abortion at all? Adler says no. No justice has ever held it does, “and no justice who considers himself or herself bound by the original public meaning of ...

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 ...

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 ...

A federal judge put a temporary stay on the order, but the final decision on how to interpret the 14th Amendment, which most ...

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 ...