All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United ...

In 1865, Congress passes the 13th Amendment. The war ends, Lincoln is assassinated and the states ratify the amendment later ...

Amy Coney Barrett’s majority opinion used a noise complaint hypothetical to justify letting Trump’s blatantly unconstitutional citizenship order blare on for everyone except the specific plaintiffs ...

There were no British soldiers in the American colonies for 130 years. Colonists distrusted soldiers due to stories of brutality against civilians by soldiers under orders of tyrannical kings in ...

The U.S. Supreme Court handed President Trump a win by lifting blocks on his efforts to end birthright citizenship for ...

But when it comes to the Seventh Amendment, 36 out of 37 State Constitutions in 1868, guaranteed the right to jury trials in all civil or common law cases. Calabresi & Agudo, supra at 77-78 ...

Aftermath and Impact The Civil War ended in 1865 with the defeat of the Confederacy and the abolition of slavery through the 13th Amendment.

The first sentence of the 14th Amendment, passed by Congress a year after the Civil War, is the Citizenship Clause: “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the ...

The Constitution includes as well the great Civil War amendments banning slavery (13th Amendment), ensuring due process protections from state governments and ensuring birthright citizenship (14th ...

As Garrett Epps puts it in Democracy Reborn: The Fourteenth Amendment and the Fight for Equal Rights in Post-Civil War America, “for the first time in American history, the [Fourteenth ...

As historian Eric Foner has observed, the Civil War and the passage of the 14th Amendment ensured that all persons born in the United States, regardless of race or status, are not only subject to ...

First proposed back in February 1863, the Christian Amendment has been introduced several times to amend the Constitution and officially make the United States a Christian nation. Additional ...