Passed in the immediate aftermath of the American Civil War, the Fourteenth Amendment was intended to further centralize ...

It’s the part of the Constitution that guarantees all Americans something Republicans despise: equal protection under the law ...

Most of Reconstruction legislation is far ahead ... did not do it under the Fourteenth Amendment. The Fourteenth Amendment has still not been interpreted to allow Congress to bar private ...

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The far right is weaponizing a doctrine that granted rights and liberties in order to snuff out the citizenship of anyone who ...

The Fourteenth Amendment did not guarantee ... In this way, Plessy rejected not only the Reconstruction Amendments, but the philosophy behind them. The amendments were built on the idea that ...

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 ...

In her speech, Jackson states that the Framers of the 14th Amendment adopted it “in ... the freedmen in — during the reconstructive — reconstruction period were actually brought equal ...

The suppression of freedom in the southern states convinced the Reconstruction Congress and supporters ... But rather than eradicate state autonomy, the people embraced the Fourteenth Amendment that ...

The Reconstruction Committee ... So Congress drafted the 14th Amendment, best known for granting citizenship to the formerly ...