The amendment’s first section begins ... have to follow the provisions stated in the Bill of Rights; only Congress had to. The 14th Amendment changed that. “This second sentence of the ...

On Thursday, a fourth federal judge blocked the executive order issued by the president on his first day in the Oval Office.

The14th Amendment was intended to correct the moral wrongs of slavery. But it has been misunderstood and reinterpreted in cases involving workdays, schools, train cars and birth control.

Thompson’s testimony in 1866 came at a critical time, as the nation weighed whether to expand equal constitutional ...

As Garrett Epps puts it in Democracy Reborn: The Fourteenth Amendment and the Fight for Equal Rights in Post-Civil War America, “for the first time in American history, the [Fourteenth ...