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14th Amendment Of Us In Broward
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") With the exception of Tennessee, the Southern states refused to ratify the Fourteenth Amendment. The Republicans then passed the Reconstruction Act of 1867, which set the conditions the Southern states had to accept before they could be readmitted to the union, including ratification of the 14th Amendment.
A legacy of Reconstruction was the determined struggle of Black and White citizens to make the promise of the 14th Amendment a reality. Citizens petitioned and initiated court cases, Congress enacted legislation, and the executive branch attempted to enforce measures that would guard all citizens' rights.
The Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause provides that no state may deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.
The South resisted the 14th and 15th Amendments through a variety of means, including the imposition of Black Codes, literacy tests, and poll taxes to disenfranchise African Americans, as well as the formation of white supremacist organizations like the Ku Klux Klan to intimidate and terrorize Black voters.
") With the exception of Tennessee, the Southern states refused to ratify the Fourteenth Amendment. The Republicans then passed the Reconstruction Act of 1867, which set the conditions the Southern states had to accept before they could be readmitted to the union, including ratification of the 14th Amendment.
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.
Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment established a new eligibility rule for higher office in America. Known as the "disqualification clause," this provision was mainly used to keep former Confederate officials from gaining power in the reconstructed government following the Civil War.
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.
Explanation: The Fourteenth Amendment affects citizenship by stating that anyone born in the U.S. automatically becomes a U.S. citizen. This concept is known as birthright citizenship and is based on the principle of jus soli, or the right of soil.
Fourteenth Amendment, 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.