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Contents 1 Section 1: Citizenship and civil rights. 1.1 Background. 2 Section 2: Apportionment of Representatives. 3 Section 3: Disqualification from office for insurrection or rebellion. 4 Section 4: Validity of public debt. 5 Section 5: Power of enforcement. 6 Selected Supreme Court cases. 7 Adoption. 8 See also.
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.
After the Civil War, Congress adopted a number of measures to protect individual rights from interference by the states. Among them was the Fourteenth Amendment, which prohibits the states from depriving “any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.”
Article III defines the crime of treason, and explains the process for finding someone guilty of this crime. Article III tells us exactly how many inferior, or lower, courts there need to be. Article III tells us that there will be one Supreme Court, but doesn't say how large or small that court will be.
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.
Section Three of the Fourteenth Amendment disqualifies those who have already held a public office from holding "any office" if they participate in an "insurrection or rebellion" against the United States. However, since this mechanism has never been used against a president, there are still questions to resolve.
14th Amendment - Citizenship Rights, Equal Protection, Apportionment, Civil War Debt | Constitution Center.
No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State ...
Section Five of the Fourteenth Amendment vests Congress with the authority to adopt “appropriate” legislation to enforce the other parts of the Amendment—most notably, the provisions of Section One.
