The text is the law, and it is the text that must be observed,” Justice Antonin Scalia famously insisted at page 22 of a ...

It’s birth equality,” author Akhil Reed Amar said. “You shouldn’t be treated better or worse if you’re born black or white, ...

Editor’s Note: This story was originally published in 2018 and has been updated. It may not be as oft-quoted as the First Amendment or as contested as the Second Amendment, but the 14th Amendment to ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This paper certified that Wong Kim Ark was able to follow through with his plan to leave the United States and return. Three men ...

When the tide in the Mississippi fell, animal guts, blood, entrails and intestines tossed into the river from slaughterhouses upstream lodged around the pipes going into the New Orleans city reservoir ...

The three post–Civil War constitutional amendments offered the United States a second, more democratic founding. Preserving this framework is essential. It became clear to me that the framers ...

Conservative commentators celebrated President-elect Donald Trump’s reaffirmed commitment to ending birthright citizenship, a goal he failed to achieve during his first presidential term. Charlie Kirk ...

Editor's note: This story was written in June of 2018. When “Amending America: The Bill of Rights” opens in Lancaster on Saturday, the traveling exhibit will find itself in a city that was home to a ...