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- 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 Board of Education (racial discrimination), Roe v
- Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
Considered one of the most consequential amendments, it addresses citizenship rights and equal protection under the law at all levels of government The Fourteenth Amendment was a response to issues affecting freed slaves following the American Civil War, and its enactment was bitterly contested
- Fourteenth Amendment | Resources - U. S. Constitution
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 law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws
- 14th Amendment to the U. S. Constitution: Civil Rights (1868)
Passed by Congress June 13, 1866, and ratified July 9, 1868, the 14th Amendment extended liberties and rights granted by the Bill of Rights to formerly enslaved people
- 14th Amendment: Simplified Summary, Text Impact | HISTORY
One of three amendments passed during the Reconstruction era to abolish slavery and establish civil and legal rights for Black Americans, it became the basis for many landmark Supreme Court
- Fourteenth Amendment | Definition, Summary, Rights, Significance . . .
What is the Fourteenth Amendment? 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
- 14th Amendment - Citizenship Rights, Equal Protection, Apportionment . . .
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 law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws
- U. S. Constitution – Amendment 14 – The U. S. Constitution Online . . .
All persons born or naturalized in the United States, citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside No State equal protection of the laws 2 Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States each State, excluding Indians not taxed But when the right to vote at any
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