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Looking back at this week in history: July 28 - Aug 3
1858: Following its ratification by the necessary three-quarters of U.S. states, the 14th Amendment, granting citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States, including formerly enslaved people, is officially adopted into the U.S. …