In the debates over the 14th Amendment in 1866, Sen. John Conness argued convincingly that "children of all parentage ...

During passage of the 14th amendment in the 1800s, John Conness fought proto-Trumpian demands to exclude some groups.

Conness, a U.S. senator from California from 1863 to 1869, was outspoken in support of birthright citizenship when Congress ...

Sen. John Conness of California, himself an immigrant from Ireland, answered that the amendment would indeed relate “to the children begotten of Chinese parents in California, and it is proposed ...

But, in response to a question from Democratic senator John Conness of California, an Irish immigrant, as to whether the children of Chinese laborers, then pouring into his state, would be ...

Is the child born of a Gypsy born in Pennsylvania a citizen?” Senator John Conness of California answered this in the affirmative. Others indicated the opposite understanding. Senator Jacob Howard, ...

Is the child born of a Gypsy born in Pennsylvania a citizen?” Senator John Conness of California answered this in the affirmative. Others indicated the opposite understanding. Senator Jacob ...