Automatic citizenship for people born in the United States is guaranteed by the 14th Amendment to the Constitution.

President-elect Donald Trump will return to the White House later this month, but some Americans may not know that there is a precise moment when that transition of power takes place.

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Georgia ratified the Constitution, the fourth of the original 13 colonies to do so, and was admitted to the Union.

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Early US elites drafted the Constitution to check democratic uprisings that threatened the power of the ruling class. The ...

Inside New York’s Migrant Shelters: A reporter and photographer spent eight months documenting life in the city’s shelter ...