14th Amendment Document Without Comments In Contra Costa
Description
Form popularity
FAQ
Final answer: The Fourteenth Amendment does not prohibit discrimination by private parties or individuals, but it ensures equal protection under the law and citizenship rights for those born in U.S. territory.
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 2.
List of United States court cases involving the Fourteenth Amendment Case nameYearCitation Cooper v. Aaron 1958 358 U.S. 1 Boynton v. Virginia 1960 364 U.S. 454 Heart of Atlanta Motel v. United States 1964 379 U.S. 241 Loving v. Virginia 1967 388 U.S. 129 more rows
The amendment's first section includes the Citizenship Clause, Privileges or Immunities Clause, Due Process Clause, and Equal Protection Clause.
Section 1 Rights 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.
Section 2 of the Fourteenth Amendment focuses on the way individual citizens are counted to determine electoral power for the states. The previous Thirteenth Amendment eliminated the Three-Fifths Clause in Article I of the Constitution, as every slave in the United States had been legally freed.
