- Fourteenth Amendment | Resources - U. S. Constitution
The original text of the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States
- Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
The Fourteenth Amendment (Amendment XIV) to the United States Constitution was adopted on July 9, 1868, as one of the Reconstruction Amendments Considered one of the most consequential amendments, it addresses citizenship rights and equal protection under the law at all levels of government
- 14th Amendment | U. S. Constitution | US Law - LII Legal Information . . .
The Fourteenth Amendment addresses many aspects of citizenship and the rights of citizens The most commonly used -- and frequently litigated -- phrase in the amendment is "equal protection of the laws", which figures prominently in a wide variety of landmark cases, including Brown v
- Fourteenth Amendment | Definition, Summary, Rights, Significance . . .
The Fourteenth Amendment is an amendment to the United States Constitution that was adopted in 1868 It granted citizenship and equal civil and legal rights to African Americans and enslaved people who had been emancipated after the American Civil War
- The 14th Amendment of the U. S. Constitution - The National Constitution . . .
SECTION 1 All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of
- 14th Amendment: Simplified Summary, Text Impact | HISTORY
Akhil Reed Amar, America’s Constitution: A Biography (New York: Random House, 2005) Fourteenth Amendment, HarpWeek 10 Huge Supreme Court Cases About the 14th Amendment, Constitution Center
- 14th Amendment to the U. S. Constitution: Civil Rights (1868)
Following the Civil War, Congress submitted to the states three amendments as part of its Reconstruction program to guarantee equal civil and legal rights to Black citizens A major provision of the 14th Amendment was to grant citizenship to “All persons born or naturalized in the United States,” thereby granting citizenship to formerly enslaved people Another equally important provision
- Fourteenth Amendment to the U. S. Constitution
The Fourteenth Amendment to the U S Constitution, ratified on July 9, 1868, defined citizenship and guaranteed the rights of citizens It was the second of three amendments adopted during Reconstruction that profoundly altered American society, government, and politics
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