Section 1 of the 14th Amendment says that "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of ...

Opinion: Former Tennessee Attorney General Paul Summers writes regularly about civics education and the U.S. Constitution.

President Trump’s executive order to limit birthright citizenship will do irreparable harm to families across our community.

The 14th Amendment grants citizenship to "all persons born or naturalized in the US"—why does Trump wants to change it?

The drafters of Sections 1 and 5 of the Fourteenth Amendment understood Section 5 as providing an unquestionable constitutional base for the 1866 Civil Rights Act, and Section 1 as embedding the ...

The purpose of Section 1 of the 14th Amendment — which begins, “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States ...

And such is the case with the 14th Amendment, especially Section 1. The 14th Amendment's original intent was to grant citizenship to the Blacks in America who had just been made free by the 13th ...

Section 8, the enforcement clause of the Fourteenth Amendment grants to Congress the power to pass legislation directed at effectuating the provisions of Sections 1 through 4 of the amendment.

Ordinarily, the courts carefully scrutinize state restrictions on the right to vote to assess their constitutionality under the equal protection clause of Section 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment to ...

Where, you ask? They continue: Section 2 of the 14th Amendment provides that if a state denies the franchise to anyone eligible to vote, its allotment of House seats shall be “reduced in the ...