14th Amendment Us Constitution With Clause In Montgomery
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The amendment's first section includes the Citizenship Clause, Privileges or Immunities Clause, Due Process Clause, and Equal Protection Clause.
After the passage of the Fourteenth Amendment, the Supreme Court, through a string of cases, found that the Due Process clause of the Fourteenth amendment included applying parts of the Bill of Rights to States (referred to as incorporation).
Section 2. Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States ing to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed.
No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be ...
Among them was the Fourteenth Amendment, which prohibits the states from depriving “any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.” When it was adopted, the Clause was understood to mean that the government could deprive a person of rights only ing to law applied by a court.
The provision disqualifies former government officials from holding office if they took an oath to support the Constitution but then betrayed it by engaging in an insurrection.
CORRECT CITATION: U.S. Const. amend. XIV, § 2.
List of United States court cases involving the Fourteenth Amendment Case nameYear Regents of the University of California v. Bakke 1978 Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1 2007 Obergefell v. Hodges 2015 Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard 202329 more rows
