“In some ways, the 14th Amendment is the original articulation that Black lives matter,” says Damon Hewitt, president and executive director of Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under the Law. On ...

The 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution has been the center of controversy since it was adopted on July 9, 1868 -- 157 years ago today. Born of Reconstruction, it was hotly debated by Northern ...

Smith spoke Wednesday at the University of Oklahoma’s Institute for the American Constitutional Heritage’s annual Constitution Day program, commemorating the signing of the U.S. Constitution in 1787.

Commentary: It’s intolerable that the Supreme Court should consider reopening an issue it took a Civil War to resolve.

This decision is only one of the ways that the Court, under Chief Justice John Roberts, has been chipping away at the parts ...

Birthright citizenship—the principle that all individuals born on U.S. soil are granted American citizenship under the Fourteenth Amendment—was at the center of arguments heard by the Supreme Court ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WCSC) - South Carolina became the 28th state to ratify the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, which, in part, made freed people United States citizens for the first time. When South ...

As a general rule, babies born in the United States of America are citizens of the United States of America. There isn’t any question about that. It’s in the Constitution, 14th Amendment: “All persons ...

The ratifiers of the 14th Amendment could not have contemplated excluding the children of unlawful entrants, because the concept did not yet exist in 1868.

As the nation approaches its 250th birthday next year, the National Archives has mounted its first display of the entire Constitution. The exhibition gives viewers a chance to see not only the ...