Donald Trump’s executive order purporting to end birthright citizenship is an attempt to reverse one outcome of the Civil War ...

President Donald Trump is seeking to end birthright citizenship, a constitutional right enshrined by the 14th Amendment. We ...

Often overshadowed by President Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, the Thirteenth Amendment officially codified the abolition of slavery into United States law in 1865. The first of the ...

The Appellate Division has deferred the scheduled hearing of a review petition filed challenging the cancellation of the 13th ...

Ever wonder why people freak out when Friday the 13th rolls around? Well, to unravel this mystery... We have to go wayyy back ...

Unlike any other president, Donald Trump has tested the words and ideas in the literal text of the US Constitution, from the ...

This week’s column in this context opines that the writing is on the wall for the thirteenth amendment to the Constitution of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka. It is the 13th ...

Bianca Tylek, founder and executive director of Worth Rises, joins Karen Conti to talk about how inmates are being used to fight wildfires.  They also discuss why prison activists say this ...

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Of the Civil War Amendments, the Fourteenth Amendment had the most far-reaching effect on the meaning of the Constitution. It conferred both national and state citizenship upon birth, thereby ...

Shortly after being sworn in as the 47th President of the United States, Donald Trump signed a host of executive orders, ...