President Donald Trump has signed an executive order imposing sanctions on the International Criminal Court over investigations of Israel.

SEATTLE — A second federal judge in two days has blocked President Donald Trump’s effort to end birthright citizenship for ...

The brief experiment with a department of education was born in 1867 and enacted by Southern Democrat President Andrew ...

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

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 debate today depends on whether, in 1868, foreigners were considered 'subject to the jurisdiction' of the United States.

After President Donald Trump signed an executive order to change the meaning of the 14th Amendment to end “birthright ...

Birthright citizenship is a shield of protection to anyone born in this country, as close to a national self-definition as we ...

Here’s what you need to know about how the amendment came to be and how Trump is arguing for it to end: Following the Civil War, Congress passed three Constitutional amendments designed to ...

“The Fourteenth Amendment has been, without a doubt, the most dynamic part of the United States Constitution since the Civil War,” said Michael P. Zuckert, professor emeritus of political ...

When the 14th Amendment was ratified in June of 1868, it marked a revolutionary shift in the United States’ understanding of citizenship and equality. Emerging from the ashes of the Civil War, the ...