It was the 14th Amendment to the Constitution — known as the birthright amendment and intended to provide citizenship and equal rights protection to people recently freed from slavery — that ...

The 14th Amendment is known as a Reconstruction amendment ... animosity still plagued the nation and the reality of a ...

Of the Civil War Amendments, the Fourteenth Amendment had the most far-reaching effect on the meaning of the Constitution. It conferred both national and state citizenship upon birth, thereby ...

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New York University law professor Devon W. Carbado discussed the “afterlife” of chattel slavery at the annual Belinda Sutton ...

And the 14th Amendment had the same goal ... a race that through many generations have been held in slavery, all the civil rights that the [white] race enjoy.” (Internal quote omitted.) ...

The moral premise of the 14th Amendment, excellent, of course, obviously. No one’s going to debate that. No one will. Abolishing slavery and respecting the dignity of all people? But they ...

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

was a “relic of slavery” prohibited under the Civil Rights Act of 1866. Avoiding the requirements of the state-action doctrine under the Fourteenth Amendment, which made prohibition of private ...

The judges deemed the order a violation of the 14th Amendment, which grants citizenship to anyone born in the United States. The author argues that if the Supreme Court upholds Trump's order ...