Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. One hundred and fifty-seven years ago, the United States adopted a Constitutional amendment guaranteeing citizenship to people ...

Perhaps the most controversial executive order President Trump has signed thus far is the one ending birthright citizenship, which was immediately challenged by several “blue” state attorney generals ...

The Williamstown League of Women Voters will hold its annual Susan B. Anthony dinner on March 18, featuring a talk by Williams College professor Sara Dubow on the 14th Amendment.

The battle over birthright citizenship is a battle over its exceptions. The 14th Amendment’s first sentence proudly proclaims ...

Conley's argument against birthright citizenship relies on an outdated understanding of originalism, focusing on "original intent" rather than "original public meaning." The original public meaning of ...

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 would later serve ...

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 ...

On his first day in office, President Donald Trump issued an executive order aimed at ending automatic citizenship, known as “birthright citizenship,” for children born in the United States to two non ...

The first section of the 14th Amendment states that all persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to its jurisdiction, are citizens of the United States and of the state where they ...

Last week, the House passed a bill seeking to "clarify" the Supreme Court's ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges, the 2015 landmark ...

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 ...

One hundred and fifty-seven years ago, the United States adopted a Constitutional amendment guaranteeing citizenship to people born on U.S. soil, one of the American bedrocks of equality. Now, that ...