The center will take a multidisciplinary approach to examining the 14th Amendment, using law, business and the arts to ...

TRENTON, NJ - The U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights might be above Governor Phil Murphy's pay grade, but a new law ...

The Fourtheenth Amendment has been used in divisive ways, giving the lie to its claim of “equal protection” under the law. We ...

First introduced in 1923, the Equal Rights Amendment has met the requirements for ratification. But its constitutionality is ...

The problem is the clause is in the Constitution. 14th Amendment, Section 1: "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the ...

That amendment was passed in response to Franklin Roosevelt’s four elections to the presidency. Since George Washington had stepped down at the end of his second term, no president had sought a third ...

News reached out to members of the Texas delegation to ask how they acquired citizenship and their position on limiting ...

Guest Opinion. PART I of 3  It may surprise many to learn that education is not explicitly a direct Constitutional right for ...

It is extremely difficult to change the U.S. Constitution. It is not simply waving a pen or a magic wand. The Constitution itself, in Article V, defines the process. For a proposal to become an ...

The amendments on the ballot focus on representation for out-of-state students, CSG campaign finance and executive term ...

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Sherrilyn Ifill, of Howard University School of Law, about the opening the 14th Amendment Center for Law and Democracy.