Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On July 9, 1868, the 14th Amendment was ratified to the U.S. Constitution, granting U.S. citizenship to Black Americans after ...

The Supreme Court’s decision to hear the case comes amid ongoing national debate over immigration policy and border security, ...

Every American citizen owes a debt of gratitude to John Mercer Langston, architect of the 14th Amendment and founding dean of the Howard University School of Law. His writings and speeches are ...

The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments May 15 over Trump's bid to end birthright citizenship. Here's what that is, and what Trump wants to do.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WCSC) - South Carolina became the 28th state to ratify the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, which, in part, made freed people United States citizens for the first time. When South ...

The 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution has been the center of controversy since it was adopted on July 9, 1868 -- 157 years ago today. Born of Reconstruction, it was hotly debated by Northern ...

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 ...

Smith spoke Wednesday at the University of Oklahoma’s Institute for the American Constitutional Heritage’s annual Constitution Day program, commemorating the signing of the U.S. Constitution in 1787.

As the nation approaches its 250th birthday next year, the National Archives has mounted its first display of the entire Constitution. The exhibition gives viewers a chance to see not only the ...

The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on April 1 in the challenge to President Donald Trump’s efforts to end birthright ...