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The only Southern state to ratify the Fourteenth Amendment was Tennessee. The amendment was adopted in 1868 and granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States, including former slaves.
New York: July 26, 1788. North Carolina: November 21, 1789.
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.
Ratification Process: The Fourteenth Amendment was ratified by Ohio on January 4; New York on January 10; Kansas on January 11; Illinois on January 15; West Virginia, Michigan, and Minnesota on January 16; Maine on January 19; Nevada on January 22; Indiana on January 23, and Missouri on January 25.
New York's present constitution is the Constitution of 1894 as amended. It consists of twenty articles numbered using Roman numerals. Article XIX of the Constitution provides for two methods of amending the Constitution: a proposal by the legislature, or a proposal by a constitutional convention.
14th Amendment Site. Ratification Process: The Fourteenth Amendment was ratified by Ohio on January 4; New York on January 10; Kansas on January 11; Illinois on January 15; West Virginia, Michigan, and Minnesota on January 16; Maine on January 19; Nevada on January 22; Indiana on January 23, and Missouri on January 25.
At that point, however, the Fourteenth Amendment had been approved by no former Confederate state except for Tennessee and by only two of the five Border States—Missouri and West Virginia.
14th Amendment - Citizenship Rights, Equal Protection, Apportionment, Civil War Debt | Constitution Center.
An amendment may be proposed by a two-thirds vote of both Houses of Congress, or, if two-thirds of the States request one, by a convention called for that purpose. The amendment must then be ratified by three-fourths of the State legislatures, or three-fourths of conventions called in each State for ratification.
To cite an Amendment of the Constitution (ing to the APA Style blog): All citations of the U.S. Constitution begin with U.S. Const., followed by the article, amendment, section, and/or clause numbers as relevant.