A reading of the 14th Amendment grants Congress the authority to end birthright citizenship, the Constitution Leadership Initiative’s Gary Porter writes in a guest column ...

A discussion of the development of civil rights law in the US through the enactment of key legislation and formation of the ...

The Fourteenth Amendment was the product of a democratic revolutionary change that sought to put the Constitution on a ...

People often don’t realize the revolutionary nature of the 13th Amendment, and conservatives in particular downplay its revolutionary nature. American historians have for a long time treated the ...

The Constitutional Court has not set the schedule for future hearings. If no additional sessions are designated, President ...

Granting clemency would affirm our commitments to justice and human rights and to a vision of dignity and fairness for all.” ...

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The Appellate Division has deferred the scheduled hearing of a review petition filed challenging the cancellation of the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, which introduced the caretaker government ...

On January 31, 1865, the U.S. Congress passed the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, which ended slavery in the United States, and sent it to states for ratification. The amendment reads as follows: ...

While Kentucky does ban slavery, it carves out an exception for one group of people - people convicted of a crime. The ...