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14th Amendment Document For African American In King
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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.
The original Constitution didn't define citizenship, nor did it give any guarantees of equality. But the 14th Amendment enabled any group of Americans to turn to the Federal government if they faced discrimination and gave them the legal tools to demand redress, just as King did on that December night in Alabama.
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 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.
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When the terms “resident” or “person” is used instead of citizen, the rights and privileges afforded are extended to protect citizens and non-citizens alike. Moreover, protections under the 14th Amendment ensure that no particular group is discriminated against unlawfully.
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 ...
The 14th Amendment to the Constitution is one of the nation's most important laws relating to citizenship and civil rights. Ratified in 1868, three years after the abolishment of slavery, the 14th Amendment served a revolutionary purpose — to define African Americans as equal citizens under the law.
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.
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The original text of the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States. The 14th Amendment was necessary to make clear that Black people, as well as anyone born in the country or naturalized, were American citizens.Ratified after the Civil War, the 14th Amendment wrote the Declaration of Independence's promise of freedom and equality into the Constitution. The Fifteenth Amendment granted voting rights to Black men. This article focuses on the Fourteenth Amendment. The Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution (1868) granted African Americans the rights of citizenship. S. law prevented women of any race from voting in federal elections until 1920.) Congress overrode President Andrew Johnson's veto and went even further, passing the 14th Amendment. The 13th Amendment formally abolished slavery. The 14th Amendment established African Americans as equal citizens of the United States.