First introduced in 1923, the Equal Rights Amendment has met the requirements for ratification. But its constitutionality is still an open question.

It is extremely difficult to change the U.S. Constitution. It is not simply waving a pen or a magic wand. The Constitution itself, in Article V, defines the process. For a proposal to become an ...

President Donald Trump signed Executive Order 14160, titled “Protecting the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship,” ...

South Carolina is one of 18 states that joined a Supreme Court brief supporting an executive order to end birthright ...

The author says executive order stripping US citizenship from children born in this country, protected by the 14th Amendment, could imperil other constitutional amendments.

The vast majority of those children were U.S. citizens. Congress ratified the 14th Amendment in July 1868, soon after the ...

For example, it was in 1868 further "democratized" when a 14th amendment granted citizenship to all persons "born or naturalized in the United States", including formerly enslaved people. The ...

The conservative majority wants to apply a “history and tradition” test to the Second Amendment. But whose history—and what ...

Jacob Howard (R-MI) as evidence that the 14th Amendment’s original intent did ... aliens because “there were no illegal aliens in 1868.” Although mid-19th century American immigration ...

The Equal Protection Clause is a section of the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution that provides that "no state shall...deny to any citizen within its jurisdiction the equal ...

March 6, 2025 • The 25th amendment. A few years before JFK was shot, an idealistic young lawyer set out on a mission to convince people something essential was missing from the Constitution ...

The lawsuit accuses authorities of violating the family’s 14th Amendment rights, saying there was no probable cause to justify the “illegal arrests and illegal removal” of the kids from thei ...