A new word-searchable collection of original historical documents creates new opportunities for research and for creating a course on the Reconstruction Amendments. The Reconstruction Amendments: ...

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 ...

This decision is only one of the ways that the Court, under Chief Justice John Roberts, has been chipping away at the parts ...

When proposing the Fourteenth Amendment to Congress in 1866, Senator Jacob Howard referred to "the personal rights guaranteed and secured by the first eight amendments of the Constitution; such as ...

Skydance Media wins the bidding war for Jennifer L. Holm's book 'The Fourteenth Goldfish' and will adapt it into an animated feature. By Borys Kit Senior Film Writer Coming on top in a bidding war, ...

The Fourteenth Amendment won’t save us from Donald Trump. Eminent jurists are promising that it will. They argue that language in the Fourteenth Amendment, adopted after the Civil War, should debar ...

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Former Senior Legal Fellow, Center for Legal and Judicial Studies Thomas Jipping was a Senior Legal Fellow for the Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies. The Fourteenth Amendment ...

Another January 6 has come and gone, and with it the furtive remembrances of the day that touched off so much institutional collapse. Not that you’d know anything was amiss in Washington, where ...

Currently a features writer at Collider, Elisa Guimarães is an arts and entertainment journalist and a critic with over a decade of experience. Passionate about movies and TV shows as a whole, she ...