The dispute centered on whether a president can reinterpret the Constitution’s guarantee of birthright citizenship.

The constitutional amendment, ratified after the Civil War, was at the center of a landmark US Supreme Court ruling.

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 born or naturalized in the United States, and ...

Supporters of court ruling, including Democrats and civil rights groups, call it one of the most important modern affirmations of birthright citizenship. Critics, including many Republicans and immigration hardliners,

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On July 9, 1868, the 14th Amendment was ratified to the U.S. Constitution, granting U.S. citizenship to Black Americans after hundreds of years of enslavement. The crucial amendment ...

The three post–Civil War constitutional amendments offered the United States a second, more democratic founding. Preserving this framework is essential. It became clear to me that the framers themselves adopted the equal protection clause, the 14th ...

Every American citizen owes a debt of gratitude to John Mercer Langston, architect of the 14th Amendment and founding dean of the Howard University School of Law. His writings and speeches are critical to understanding the current implementation of the ...