The Fourteenth Amendment was the product of a democratic revolutionary change that sought to put the Constitution on a ...

The 14th Amendment made the U.S. a place where ... many Americans — including President Andrew Johnson — thought that the country’s four million Black residents should remain barred from ...

Yet, every person present in the United States is not presumed to have fealty to the United States, which is what “jurisdiction” means in the Fourteenth Amendment. And it is clearly not the ...

Ratified by the states in 1868, the 14th Amendment holds that, “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and ...

Johnson decided that the Southern states were only required to swear fealty to the Union and incorporate the 13th Amendment, abolishing slavery, into their state constitutions -- all else was up ...