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 ...

A civil rights advisory committee released a report this week, finding that Louisiana’s involuntary commitment law appears to violate due process rights under the 14th Amendment.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On July 9, 1868, the 14th Amendment was ratified to the U.S. Constitution, granting U.S. citizenship to Black Americans after ...

Trump is trying to undo the 14th amendment. Historians are horrified. - Black activists championed the idea of birthright ...

Editor's note: This story was written in June of 2018. When “Amending America: The Bill of Rights” opens in Lancaster on Saturday, the traveling exhibit will find itself in a city that was home to a ...

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 ...

In conversations about civil rights and constitutional change, we often look outward, to Washington, D.C., to Supreme Court ...