President Joe Biden, along with many commentators, has speculated that a president can bypass Congress by using the 14th Amendment to the Constitution. But we have no precedent for how that would ...

Before the adoption of the Fourteenth Amendment, citizens of the states were automatically considered citizens of the United States. In 1857, the Dred Scott v. Sandford decision had held that no ...

Some lawsuits invoke the Equal Protection Clause of the 14 th amendment which was ratified after slavery was abolished and ...

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 ...

Early voting is now underway and there are a total of 14 amendments to the state constitution that will also be on the ballot on November 7. Texas voters will get to consider these proposed ...

The Equal Protection Clause is a section of the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution that provides that "no state shall...deny to any citizen within its jurisdiction the equal ...

Section 3 of the 14th Amendment bars current and former federal, state and military officials who have "engaged in insurrection or rebellion" against the country from holding office again.

Soon after Congress had overturned President Andrew Johnson’s veto of the Civil Rights Act of 1866, it passed the Fourteenth Amendment and sent it to the states for approval. This was to counter ...

Gov. Chris Sununu sided with parents involved in recent protests and a lawsuit in Bow, citing First Amendment rights, three ...

Published: October 14, 2024 at 9:03 AM Updated: October 17, 2024 at 7:20 PM Tags: Vote 2024 , Vote 2024 Amendments , Elections , Florida Amendment 4 is an abortion rights question.

They feel that limits placed on a candidate violate their First and Fourteenth Amendment rights. Senator Travis Hudson (R-7), the amendment sponsor, said, “I think it's absurd that anybody would ...