The amendment, they say, was never intended to be colorblind. The 14th amendment was ratified on July 9, 1868, to grant ...

Section 2 of the 14th Amendment provides that “when the right ... be excluded,” wrote the Charleston Daily News on Aug. 10, ...

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 ...

In 1868, the Fourteenth Amendment was added to the Constitution, and since that time, historians have debated what the intentions of the framers and ratifiers of the amendment were. Clearly the ...

A century ago, when Congress passed the Indian Citizenship Act, key questions about Native sovereignty were left unresolved.

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which was used to keep former Confederates from holding government offices after the 14th Amendment's adoption in 1868. Illinois election officials to consider removing Trump from March primary ...

The amendment Hurst was reading, the 14th, ratified in 1868 after the Civil War, is among the most consequential of the amendments because it effectively made the Bill of Rights applicable to the ...

The Republican presidential nominee wants to wipe away the 156-year-old guarantee that if you’re born here, you’re American.

The left argues that the former president is ineligible to run for re-election because he “engaged in insurrection” on January 6 and, as a result, Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment to the ...

Floridians will get the chance to vote on whether or not abortion is a state constitutional right via Amendment 4. But what ...

Section 2 of the 14th Amendment provides that “when the right ... To date, besides Florida in 1868, the only other instance of a state legislature choosing presidential electors without a ...