The 14th Amendment was passed in July 1868, after the American Civil War. It provided US citizenship to people who had been enslaved within the country. Thirty years later, the Supreme Court ruled that people born in the United States…
Last week, Donald Trump won the 2016 US presidential election even though more people actually voted for Hilary Clinton. How is this possible? Presidential elections in the United States actually have two parts. The first part is the popular vote.…
Courts in Delaware ruled that the state's death penalty law is unconstitutional due to a recent US Supreme Court ruling. The court claims that the law is unconstitutional because it allows the judge to enact a death sentence, no matter…
Director Ava DuVernay has a new documentary called "The 13th." It examines the history of racial inequality in the United States, and the film's title references the 13th Amendment of the Constitution, which banned slavery. It covers from the early…
Khizr Khan, the parent of a fallen Muslim US soldier, spoke at the 2016 Democratic National Convention. In his speech, he criticized Republican Presidential nominee Donald Trump, questioning if Trump had read the US Constitution. He offered to lend him…