Of the Civil War Amendments, the Fourteenth Amendment had the most far-reaching effect on the meaning of the Constitution. It conferred both national and state citizenship upon birth, thereby ...

Representative Bingham proposed a constitutional amendment that was a precursor to the Fourteenth Amendment. Bingham’s proposed amendment gave Congress “power to make all laws which shall be ...

Daniels v. Williams (1986) (Stevens, J., concurring). Modern law interprets the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to impose the same substantive due process and procedural due process requirements ...

Negroes were stunned last fall when Californians voted 2 to 1 for “Proposition 14” — a constitutional amendment voiding state laws against housing discrimination. The amendment affirms the ...