In some ways, the 14th Amendment is the original articulation that Black lives matter,” says Damon Hewitt, president and ...

Birthright citizenship is relatively uncommon. There are 195 countries in the world, and only 30 of them have it — that’s just 15 percent ...

A singular nation that cannot and will not be divided, and a promise that everyone within that indivisible nation will be granted conditionless liberty and justice. That’s the kind of promise we want ...

President Donald Trump said his administration would proceed with his executive order denying citizenship to children of immigrants who are not permanent residents or citizens after the Supreme Court ...

John Jay’s observation in Federalist No. 2 that Americans are “a people descended from the same ancestors, speaking the same language, professing the same religion, attached to the same principles of ...

The Naturalization Act of 1790 applied citizenship only to “free white persons,” and the Supreme Court’s reviled decision in Dred Scott v Sandford in 1857 affirmed that citizenship could not ...

She expressed concern that the bill would suppress certain historical facts about the country’s history from being taught in schools, giving as an example the Naturalization Act of 1790, which ...

In 1790 and 1795, Congress enacted naturalization laws that allowed white persons only to apply as two-year residents of “good character” who had “to renounce forever allegiance and fidelity ...

Why Was Birthright Citizenship Established? The Naturalization Act of 1790 granted citizenship to "free white persons" who had lived in the U.S. for at least two years and had "good character." ...

Till the early 1900s, only people who were “free and white” were eligible for US citizenship under the Naturalization Act of 1790, however, Bhicaji Balsara, an Indian-Parsi textile merchant ...