Here is the first sentence of the 14th Amendment of the Constitution of the United States: “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens ...

Critics and supporters of President Donald Trump’s executive order on birthright citizenship often focus on the order’s barring of automatic citizenship to children born to individuals unlawfully ...

The first section of the 14th Amendment states that all persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to its jurisdiction, are citizens of the United States and of the state where they ...

Birthright citizenship—the principle that all individuals born on U.S. soil are granted American citizenship under the Fourteenth Amendment—was at the center of arguments heard by the Supreme Court ...

The Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment is exactly like a similar provision in the Fifth Amendment, which only restricts the federal government. It states that no person shall be “deprived ...

Birthright citizenship refers to the legal principle of jus soli, or 'right of the soil,' where individuals born in a territory automatically receive citizenship. In the United States, this principle ...

The Civil War ended 160 years ago. The racist Jim Crow laws of the post-Civil War era were outlawed in the 1960s. It is time for the United States to uphold the words of the 14th Amendment to the ...

The Supreme Court recently spent three hours debating whether states may limit girls’ sports teams to people assigned female at birth. The justices pressed lawyers on endocrinology, competitive ...