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14th Amendment In Your Own Words In Kings
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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.
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.
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 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.
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 Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause guarantees procedural due process, meaning that government actors must follow certain procedures before they may deprive a person of a protected life, liberty, or property interest.
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 equal protection clause prevents the state government from enacting criminal laws that arbitrarily discriminate. The Fifth Amendment due process clause extends this prohibition to the federal government if the discrimination violates due process of law.
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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. The Due Process Clause provides that no states shall deprive any "person" of "life, liberty or property" without due process of law.The citizenship clause of the 14th Amendment was specifically intended to repeal the Dred Scott decision. The 14th amendment is designed to constitutionalize the rights of the civil rights act of 1866. The Supreme Court has recognized that the Due Process Clause subsumes a constitutionally protected right to refuse medical care. This is the full text of the fourteenth amendment to the US Constitution, which granted citizenship to "all persons born or naturalized in the United States," The Fifth Amendment says to the federal government that no one shall be "deprived of life, liberty or property without due process of law. Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted. Amendment IX (1791). That's called the citizenship clause.