Is President Trump Disqualified From Office Under the 14th Amendment?

Run time: 55 minutes

Law professors Mark Graber and Michael McConnell join host Jeffrey Rosen to discuss what Section 3 of the 14th Amendment means and how it applies to disqualification from office; whether President Trump’s actions qualify as engaging in insurrection; whether or not Section 3 is self-executing and who can enforce it, and more. Listen now

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Aaron Burr’s Trial and the Constitution’s Treason Clause

by Scott Bomboy | Read time: 3 minutes

“It was September 1, 1807, that former Vice President Aaron Burr was acquitted of treason charges. The trial was truly a “Trial of the Century” in its time and one of the first tests of the Constitution’s Treason Clause. ...” Read more

Thurgood Marshall’s Unique Supreme Court Legacy

by NCC Staff | Read time: 3 minutes

“On August 30, 1967, the Senate confirmed Thurgood Marshall as the first Black person to serve as a Supreme Court Justice. Marshall was no stranger to the Senate or the Supreme Court at the time. ...” Read more

Opening September 6: The First Amendment Gallery

On September 6, the National Constitution Center will open our newest gallery, The First Amendment. The 1,500-square-foot exhibit features more than 20 artifacts highlighting all five freedoms, including a draft opinion with handwritten edits from U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis; an anti-Vietnam War armband worn by the Tinker family and associated with the landmark student speech case, Tinker v. Des Moines; The New York Times’ 1971 publication of the classified “Pentagon Papers;” and a pennant from the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Learn more

The 14th Amendment, Section 3

“No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.”

Read interpretations in the Interactive Constitution

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