14th Amendment Agreement With Mexico In Nevada
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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 Mexican Constitution establishes a rigorous process for approving constitutional amendments, requiring the support of a two-thirds qualified majority in both chambers of Congress. Subsequently, the draft bill needs to be approved by a simple majority of state legislatures (at least 17 of the 32 states).
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.
The Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution contains a number of important concepts, most famously state action, privileges or immunities, citizenship, due process, and equal protection—all of which are contained in Section One.
Rather than deferring to the racist citizenship determinations of individual states, the Fourteenth Amendment made Americans citizens of the nation, first and foremost, and established a simple national rule for citizenship: If you're born in America under our flag, you're a U.S. citizen.
For over a century, the U.S. Supreme Court has interpreted the Fourteenth Amendment as conferring U.S. citizenship automatically to anyone born on U.S. soil.
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.
The principle is stated in the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution: "No State shall deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws." This is referred to as the “Equal Protection Clause.”
