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citizenship



  • The Reconstruction Amendments and the Basis of American Abortion Rights

    by Peggy Cooper Davis

    When the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments were debated, concerns about the protection of both public rights of citizenship and private, intimate rights of individuals were front and center. There is, notwithstanding Samuel Alito's opinion, a long tradition of constitutional respect for privacy.



  • Allegiance, Birthright and Race in America

    by William Darity, Jr. and Charles Ali Bey

    The Thirteenth Amendment demonstrated that a person could be both a citizen and a slave (via conviction). What, then, was the citizenship status of the enslaved in America, and what does that tell us about the debates over birthright citizenship and reparations today? 



  • Birtherism 2.0

    by Matthew Yglesias

    Right-wing challenges to Kamala Harris's eligibility for the presidency depend on a legal argument that American-born children of immigrants are a lesser category of citizen. There is no basis under the Constitution for this. 


  • Of Course Kamala Harris is a Citizen

    by Derek Litvak

    John Eastman's claims that Kamala Harris is not a natural-born U.S. citizen fly in the face of 14th Amendment jurisprudence and Eastman's own prior defenses of Ted Cruz's eligibility for the presidency. 



  • 15th Turns 150!

    The presence of new citizens in the form of formerly enslaved people forced Congress to consider what citizenship and voting actually meant. 



  • Responsibility and Civility: The Unwritten Essentials

    by Mary Lindemann

    Critical to the prospering of any academic group are the unwritten expectations that underlie and ground its workings. When they’re observed, organizations prosper; when they’re disregarded, things go terribly wrong.