Following the Civil War and between 1865 and 1870, Congress passed Reconstruction Amendments (13, 14 and 15) to establish a new order or reconstruct laws to provide for equal freedoms and rights for ...

Justice, Democracy, and Law is a recurring series by Edward B. Foley that focuses on election law and the relationship of law and democracy. Please note that the views of […] ...

At bottom, what I desire is consistency. Either race matters, or it doesn’t. Pick your poison, writes Eric Foster in his ...

Our editors warned of a need to “restore the balance of power in American government.” Our readers had much to say in ...

On July 9, 1868, the 14th Amendment was ratified to the U.S. Constitution, granting U.S. citizenship to Black Americans after hundreds of years of enslavement. The crucial amendment would later serve ...

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The author says that the 14th Amendment’s Citizenship Clause, understood according to its original public meaning, obviously guarantees birthright citizenship.