A Black transgender woman’s testimony helped ratify the 14th Amendment. Then conservatives began attacking her identity
Frances Thompson’s testimony in 1866 came at a critical time, as the nation weighed whether to expand equal constitutional ...
Democracy Reborn: The Fourteenth Amendment and the Fight for Equal Rights in Post-Civil War America, by Garrett Epps
The Fourteenth Amendment was the product of a democratic revolutionary change that sought to put the Constitution on a ...
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Not Hard to Read 14th Amendment As Not Requiring Birthright Citizenship — and Nothing Odd About Supporting Such a Reading
Yet, every person present in the United States is not presumed to have fealty to the United States, which is what “jurisdiction” means in the Fourteenth Amendment. And it is clearly not the ...
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Trump Doesn’t Get to Decide What the Constitution Means
The purpose of Section 1 of the 14th Amendment — which begins, “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States ...
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A Black transgender woman’s testimony helped ratify the 14th Amendment. Then conservatives began attacking her identity
‘Kill the last damned one:’ The Memphis Race Massacre Exactly one year after the end of the Civil War, on April 9, 1866, Congress overrode President Andrew Johnson’s veto to enact the nation ...