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 Supreme Court's 5-4 decision overturned Mapp's conviction, on the grounds that evidence seized without a search warrant cannot be used in state criminal prosecutions under the 4th Amendment to the Constitution, which protects against unreasonable searches and seizures, and the 14th Amendment, which extends that ...
List of United States court cases involving the Fourteenth Amendment Case nameYearCitation Plessy v. Ferguson 1896 163 U.S. 537 Cumming v. Richmond County Board of Education 1899 175 U.S. 528 Lum v. Rice 1927 275 U.S. 78 Roberto Alvarez v. Board of Trustees of the Lemon Grove School District 1931 66625 Cal. Super.29 more rows
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.
North Carolina, Louisiana, and finally South Carolina ratified the amendment after initially rejecting it. Following South Carolina's ratification vote on July 9, the 14th Amendment became part of the U.S. Constitution.
Obergefell v. Hodges, 576 U.S. 644 (2015) Michigan, Kentucky, Ohio, and Tennessee define marriage as a union between one man and one woman. Plaintiffs challenged the laws as violating the Fourteenth Amendment.
In addition, article 14(1) provides that: All persons shall be equal before the courts and tribunals . All persons are equal before the law and are entitled without anydiscrimination to the equal protection of the law.
List of United States court cases involving the Fourteenth Amendment Case nameYearCitation Loving v. Virginia 1967 388 U.S. 1 Alexander v. Holmes County Board of Education 1969 396 U.S. 1218 Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education 1971 402 U.S. 1 Guey Heung Lee v. Johnson 1971 404 U.S 121529 more rows
Fourteenth Amendment, Section 1: 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 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 ...