Constitution Daily Blog
Citizenship
Birthright citizenship looming as a campaign, and constitutional issue
Should everyone born in the United States automatically become a citizen? It’s a constitutional and political question that will…
A troubled semicentennial remembrance of the Voting Rights Act
In this commentary, Rick Valelly of Swarthmore College says the history of voting rights reminds us that democracy is a work in…
Voting rights law, then and now
In this commentary, Nathaniel Persily of Stanford Law School explains how the struggle over voting rights has changed since the…
Constitution Check: Is natural-born citizenship sometimes not a fundamental right?
Lyle Denniston, the National Constitution Center’s constitutional literacy adviser, looks at the current case of five American…
Secession, the Confederate Flag, and Slavery
In this commentary, Paul Finkelman, a Senior Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania, looks at the renewed debate over the…
Dalai Lama to receive 2015 Liberty Medal at the National Constitution Center
The National Constitution Center has announced His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet will receive the 2015 Liberty Medal in…
Supreme Court rules against spouse’s visa denial challenge
A divided Supreme Court on Monday said that naturalized U.S. citizen couldn’t challenge a federal government decision to deny…
Supreme Court sides with President in Jerusalem passport case
The United States Supreme Court, in a majority opinion from Justice Anthony Kennedy, said on Monday that the President, and not…
The World War I Anti-War Movement and The First Amendment
In this excerpt from Dissent: The History of an American Idea, Ralph Young looks at how the limits of dissent as one of our…
Other past and future presidential candidates and birthplace issues
The debate over Senator Ted Cruz’s birthplace has raised some interesting questions about other folks who sought, or make seek,…
