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

In the few days since he returned to the White House, President Donald Trump’s sweeping executive orders and mass pardons ...

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

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

Birthright citizenship is the principle that someone born in a country is a citizen of that country. In the U.S., that's in ...

Birthright citizenship was a profound acknowledgment that those born here, regardless of parentage or circumstance, belong ...

A group of congressional republicans introduced a bill on Thursday that they said would codify President Donald Trump's ...

Around three dozen other countries offer automatic citizenship to children born within their borders, regardless of their ...

The amendment grants citizenship to almost everyone born inside the country — a rare policy for an advanced economy in the 21st century. Among the 20 most developed countries in the world ...

The amendment has five sections, but we will only be dealing with the first, which contains the Citizenship Clause and three other related clauses. The 14th Amendment is known as a Reconstruction ...