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 ...

A new word-searchable collection of original historical documents creates new opportunities for research and for creating a course on the Reconstruction Amendments.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

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 ...

Abstract: A clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution provides, “The validity of the public debt of the United States…shall not be questioned.” Far from authorizing the ...

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

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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 ...

When the Doctor Who Commander decks were released for Magic: The Gathering, fans of the show expressed disappointment that there was no Doctor that could be the commander for a deck featuring ALL the ...

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, ...