On January 31, 1865, the U.S. Congress passed the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, which ended slavery in the United ...

People often don’t realize the revolutionary nature of the 13th Amendment, and conservatives in particular downplay its revolutionary nature. American historians have for a long time treated the ...

Donald Trump’s executive order purporting to end birthright citizenship is an attempt to reverse one outcome of the Civil War ...

Unlike any other president, Donald Trump has tested the words and ideas in the literal text of the US Constitution, from the ...

The president’s executive order would purportedly end a fundamental right enshrined in the Constitution. But that's not how this works.

The Fourteenth Amendment was the product of a democratic revolutionary change that sought to put the Constitution on a ...

While Kentucky does ban slavery, it carves out an exception for one group of people - people convicted of a crime. The ...

Trump wants a Constitution that, among other things, allows him to refuse to spend congressional appropriations and as we’ve ...

Rep. Andy Ogles (R-Tenn.) proposed an amendment to the U.S. Constitution that would allow President Trump to serve a third term in the White House so the country “can sustain the bold leadership our ...