The three post–Civil War constitutional amendments offered the United States a second, more democratic founding. Preserving this framework is essential. It became clear to me that the framers ...

When the Doctor Who Commander decks were released for Magic: The Gathering, fans of the show expressed disappointment that there was no Doctor that could be the commander for a deck featuring ALL the ...

The Fourteenth Amendment won’t save us from Donald Trump. Eminent jurists are promising that it will. They argue that language in the Fourteenth Amendment, adopted after the Civil War, should debar ...

Establishing U.S. citizenship is supposed to be easy. In 1868, the first sentence of the newly ratified Fourteenth Amendment declared: “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and ...

The Fourteenth Doctor didn’t regenerate. Instead, he bi-generated. The Fifteenth Doctor didn’t replace the Fourteenth Doctor but popped out of him in one of the most unusual regeneration-ish sequences ...

Today marks the 150th anniversary of the adoption of the Constitution’s Fourteenth Amendment. A key part of the nation’s second founding, the Fourteenth Amendment finally made good on the Declaration ...

Academicians, lawyers, elections officials, pundits and politicians are presently ensconced in the problem of Donald Trump’s continuing constitutional qualification for presidential office. Although ...

What kind of law defines Fourteenth Amendment rights? The answer seems obvious. Section One of the Amendment confers federal constitutional rights: to "due process," to "equal protection," to the ...