Black conventions throughout the 19th century served as platforms for advocating for equal citizenship rights for African Americans. The 14th Amendment's guarantee of birthright citizenship ...
Trump's executive order deviates entirely from the historical meaning of the 14th amendment. This amendment, a product of the post-Civil War constitutional revolution, guaranteed that every person ...
William Galston makes several errors in his column “In Defense of Birthright Citizenship ... laws are hereby extended to aliens of African nativity and to persons of African descent ...
A new op-ed from a pair of conservative legal experts only raises unflattering questions about the direction of the right's juridical scholarship.
For decades, birthright citizenship has vexed Republicans ... the Constitution as permanently excluding people of African descent from eligibility for United States citizenship solely based ...
had determined that African Americans could never be US citizens. The 14th Amendment overrode that. In 1898, the US Supreme Court ruled that birthright citizenship applies to the children of ...
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