How can citizens and advocacy groups use the Fourteenth Amendment to advance civil rights and liberties?

What's the citizenship status of the children of illegal aliens? That question has spurred quite a debate over the 14th Amendment lately, with the news that ... Jan 4, 2011 ... What is the Citizenship Clause of the 14th Amendment? The 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution provides that, with few discrete ... The Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States granted citizenship and equal civil and legal rights to anyone born in the United States or ... With the aid of a group of historians sympathetic to their cause, the NAACP lawyers prepared a brief that presented a bold (if often tendentious) revisionist ... The Fourteenth Amendment granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States, including formerly enslaved people. Mar 3, 2010 ... On March 2, in McDonald v. City of Chicago, the Court will hear oral arguments on whether that right applies to states and localities. Lauren Latterell Powell, Concealed Motives: Rethinking Fourteenth Amendment and Voting Rights Challenges to Felon Disenfranchisement, 22 Mich. J. Race & L. 383 ... May 20, 2017 ... This paper argues that preborn human beings are legal “persons” within the original meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and the State wherein they ... Section Two is discriminatory in its nature. One can easily understand why voting rights advocates would be attracted to a Section Two remedy.