14th Amendment Document For African American In Clark
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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.
The Fourteenth Amendment gave citizenship to formerly enslaved people as well and established birthright citizenship, thereby granting the right to vote to many citizens, particularly people of color, who had previously been denied it.
The amendment's first section includes the Citizenship Clause, Privileges or Immunities Clause, Due Process Clause, and Equal Protection Clause.
The provision disqualifies former government officials from holding office if they took an oath to support the Constitution but then betrayed it by engaging in an insurrection.
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.
List of United States court cases involving the Fourteenth Amendment Case nameYearCitation Roberto Alvarez v. Board of Trustees of the Lemon Grove School District 1931 66625 Cal. Super. Powell v. Alabama 1932 287 U.S. 45 Missouri ex rel. Gaines v. Canada 1938 305 U.S. 337 Smith v. Allwright 1944 321 U.S. 64929 more rows
Constitution of the United States.
Fourteenth Amendment Equal Protection and Other Rights.
The 14th Amendment revoked the Black Codes by declaring that states could not pass laws that denied citizens their constitutional rights and freedoms. No person could be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process (fair treatment by the judicial system), and the law was to be equally applied to everyone.
