President Donald Trump is seeking to end birthright citizenship, a constitutional right enshrined by the 14th Amendment. We ...

The14th Amendment was intended to correct the moral wrongs of slavery. But it has been misunderstood and reinterpreted in ...

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

Before the Civil War, states didn’t necessarily have to follow the provisions stated in the Bill of Rights; only Congress had to. The 14th Amendment changed that. “This second sentence of the ...

The 14th Amendment made the U.S. a place where every ... “It’s certainly the most important change in the Constitution since the Bill of Rights,” the historian Eric Foner told me.

House Republicans are pushing a new bill to limit birthright citizenship to babies born with at least one parent who is a U.S ...

GOP Texas U.S. Rep. Brian Babin is seeking to end the misuse of birthright citizenship through a piece of legislation ...

The 14th Amendment grants citizenship to "all persons born or naturalized in the US"—why does Trump wants to change it?

Immigration has dominated the new session of Congress, which is now under GOP control, with Democrats pushing back on ...

The Equal Rights ... of the bill passed by Congress included an arbitrary seven year deadline to ratify. Deadlines are not mandated by Article V of the Constitution, which outlines the amendment ...

Trump, meanwhile, has promised to challenge the 14th Amendment with an executive ... with the 10 amendments that became the Bill of Rights. That amendment prohibits any law that changes the ...