- U. S. Constitution - Fourteenth Amendment | Resources . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
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: 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
- Fourteenth Amendment to the U. S . . . - Encyclopedia Virginia
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
- fourteenth - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
fourteenth (plural fourteenths) The person or thing in the fourteenth position One of fourteen equal parts of a whole (music) The interval comprising an octave and a seventh
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