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 ...

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

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

Eighteen states have sued the federal government over the executive order, showing the legal challenges the president will ...

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

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

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Of the Civil War Amendments, the Fourteenth Amendment had the most far-reaching effect on the meaning of the Constitution. It conferred both national and state citizenship upon birth, thereby ...

President Donald Trump is seeking to end birthright citizenship, a constitutional right enshrined by the 14th Amendment. We asked two experts in constitutional and immigration law to walk us through ...