14th Amendment

An Insult to the 9th Amendment?

by Brion McClanahan | Jul 5, 2022 | 14th Amendment, 9th Amendment, Audio/Video, Incorporation Doctrine, Other Voices

Damon Root at Reason.com thinks the recent Dobbs decision is an “insult to the 9th Amendment.” His position is based on two faulty premises: 1. That “originalism” is based on what the opponents of the Constitution worried the document would do...

Incorporation: Applying the Bill of Rights to the States

by Michael Boldin | Jun 29, 2022 | 14th Amendment, Audio/Video, Bill of Rights, Incorporation Doctrine, Path to Liberty

Incorporation – the legal doctrine whereby the Supreme Court applies the Bill of Rights to the states, was not part of the original, legal meaning of the Constitution. Instead, it arose out of the 14th Amendment, and the court first started applying it...

New Book: “The Second Founding” by Ilan Wurman

by Michael D. Ramsey | Nov 24, 2020 | 14th Amendment, Books, Incorporation Doctrine

Recently published, by Ilan Wurman (Arizona State): The Second Founding: An Introduction to the Fourteenth Amendment (Cambridge Univ. Press 2020). Here is the book description from Amazon: In The Second Founding: An Introduction to the Fourteenth Amendment, Ilan...

More on Senator Harris and the Natural Born Citizen Clause

by Michael D. Ramsey | Aug 17, 2020 | 14th Amendment, Citizenship

At Newsweek, John Eastman (Chapman): Some Questions for Kamala Harris About Eligibility. From the core of the argument: The language of Article II is that one must be a natural-born citizen [to be President]. The original Constitution did not define citizenship, but...

How SCOTUS perverted the equal protection clause of Sec. 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment

by Publius Huldah | Jun 15, 2020 | 14th Amendment, Incorporation Doctrine

1. Harvard Professor Raoul Berger’s meticulously documented book, Government by Judiciary: The Transformation of the Fourteenth Amendment, proves by means of thousands of quotes from the Congressional Debates, that the purpose of Sec. 1 of the 14th Amendment was to...

Today in History: 14th Amendment Ratified. Or Was it?

by Dave Benner | Jul 28, 2019 | 14th Amendment, History, Incorporation Doctrine

Today in 1868, the United States general government claimed that the 14th Amendment had received the endorsement of the requisite number of states to add it to the Constitution. Notwithstanding the contention that the 14th Amendment was not properly ratified (I share...

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