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14th Amendment In Your Own Words In Cook
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14th Amendment. Declares that all persons born in the U.S. are citizens and are guaranteed equal protection of the laws.
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's Due Process Clause provides that no state may deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.
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.
The Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States granted citizenship and equal civil and legal rights to anyone born in the United States or who became a citizen of the country. This included African Americans and slaves who had been freed after the American Civil War.
The Reconstruction Amendments, and especially the Fourteenth, transformed the Constitution from a document primarily concerned with federal-state relations and the rights of property into a vehicle through which members of vulnerable minorities could stake a claim to substantive freedom and seek protection against ...
The Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States granted citizenship and equal civil and legal rights to anyone born in the United States or who became a citizen of the country. This included African Americans and slaves who had been freed after the American Civil War.
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4 The proposed amendment as it passed the House contained no such provision, and it was decided in the Senate to include language like that finally adopted. Equal protection analysis is consistent in both cases as strict.▫ Skepticism – skeptical any time the govt applies race (strict scrutiny). Adopted in 1868, the Fourteenth Amendment to the US Constitution addresses citizenship rights, due process, and equal protection under the law. All persons lawfully in this country shall abide 'in any state' on an equality of legal privileges with all citizens under nondiscriminatory laws. And childbearing is rooted in the purpose of the Fourteenth Amendment.113. Justice BROWN, after stating the facts in the foregoing language, delivered the opinion of the court. The first sentence of the Fourteenth Amendment repudiated specific language in Dred Scott. (Source: Illinois Constitution.) SECTION 14. The Colorado court failed, however, to follow its own advice.