THE FIRST THREE WORDS OF THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION THE BEDROCK FUNDAMENTAL ... COTTON LOOKS TO THE FOURTH AMENDMENT. THERE’S NO IMMIGRANT EXCEPTION TO THE FOURTH AMENDMENT, WHERE BECAUSE ...

The purpose of Section 1 of the 14th Amendment — which begins ... of Mongolian parents shall be declared by the Constitution of the United States to be entitled to civil rights and to ...

Iowa is among 26 states that does not have a process that allows citizens an opportunity to begin the process of amending the state constitution; that process currently is started by state lawmakers.

Critically for Trump’s purposes, the amendment is not restricted to consecutive terms. Virtually every constitutional scholar ...

The sponsor of the resolution, state Rep. Nico Rios of Williston, used racist and homophobic slurs to verbally abuse two ...

No U.S. president has ever gone after the 14th Amendment before, but Trump’s birthright citizenship attack isn’t the first ...

Black activists championed the idea of birthright citizenship long before it was introduced to the U.S. Constitution, reports ...

One of the biggest issues of the new Trump term is birthright citizenship. The president is pushing back against it with an ...

The court concluded, “To hold that the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution excludes ... part of a new underclass in the United States.” Since Trump first ran for the presidency in 2016 ...

There are 24 U.S. states that allow for citizen-led ballot initiatives, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. Iowa is not among them. Some politicians want to change that.

Birthright citizenship is a right that is outlined within the U.S. Constitution under the 14th Amendment ... mother was unlawfully present in the United States and the father was not a United ...

Trump issued an executive order that would erase part of the 14th Amendment, which guarantees citizenship to all children ...