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President Donald Trump is seeking to end birthright citizenship, a constitutional right enshrined by the 14th Amendment. We ...

Thus, the Equal Protection Clause can be understood only as an organic part of the Fourteenth Amendment and in the broader context of all the Reconstruction amendments. Under current Supreme Court ...

The 14th Amendment was one of the Reconstruction Amendments, which were amendments passed in response to the issues formerly enslaved individuals faced after the Civil War. The amendment granted ...