The US Supreme Court is set to hear arguments on May 15 regarding Donald Trump’s executive order to limit birthright citizenship. This is the first major legal challenge to the constitutional right in ...

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 ...

The 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution has been the center of controversy since it was adopted on July 9, 1868 -- 157 years ago today. Born of Reconstruction, it was hotly debated by Northern ...

The 14th Amendment, passed by Congress in June 1866 and ratified in July 1868, starts by declaring "All persons born or naturalized in the United States ... are citizens of the United States and of ...

Here is the first sentence of the 14th Amendment of the Constitution of the United States: “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens ...

NEW ENGLAND STATE EXCEPT ONE COME NEXT MONTH, DEPENDING ON WHETHER A BABY IS BORN TO UNDOCUMENTED PARENTS IN MASSACHUSETTS OR ACROSS THE BORDER IN NEW HAMPSHIRE, WILL DETERMINE WHETHER THAT BABY ...

Smith spoke Wednesday at the University of Oklahoma’s Institute for the American Constitutional Heritage’s annual Constitution Day program, commemorating the signing of the U.S. Constitution in 1787.

On Friday, the Supreme Court announced that it would hear challenges to President Donald Trump’s executive order to end birthright citizenship. The 14th Amendment automatically makes all babies born ...

Correction: An earlier version of this story incorrectly stated the timing of Justice Clarence Thomas' Sept. 25 speech with respect to the Justice Department's appeal. The appeal was the next day. The ...

University of Southern California provides funding as a member of The Conversation US. For more than 150 years, almost all people who were born within U.S. territory automatically received citizenship ...

The Supreme Court will review President Trump's executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship for some children born in the U.S. Trump's order reinterprets the 14th Amendment to exclude ...

As the nation approaches its 250th birthday next year, the National Archives has mounted its first display of the entire Constitution. The exhibition gives viewers a chance to see not only the ...