Supporters need to follow Frederick Douglass' example — and make a case for conceiving of citizenship more broadly.

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In the developing world, the party in power does away with its opponents in one of three ways: a bullet to the face, chucking them in jail, or kicking them off the ballot. It's good to see that ...

Nobody is above the law is rooted in the U.S. Constitution, particularly in the Fourteenth Amendment, which ensures equal ...

The Fourteenth Amendment, considered by both scholars and ordinary Americans to be one of the most consequential assurances of civil liberties in U.S. history, was certified as part of the ...

Abstract: A clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution provides, “The validity of the public debt of the United States…shall not be questioned.” Far from authorizing the ...

A new word-searchable collection of original historical documents creates new opportunities for research and for creating a course on the Reconstruction Amendments. The Reconstruction Amendments: ...