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Thus public school segregation based on race was found in violation of the 14th Amendment's Equal Protection Clause. Mapp v.
A legacy of Reconstruction was the determined struggle of Black and White citizens to make the promise of the 14th Amendment a reality.
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.
Not only did the 14th Amendment fail to extend the Bill of Rights to the states; it also failed to protect the rights of Black citizens.
State-sanctioned segregation of public schools was a violation of the 14th amendment and was therefore unconstitutional.
Due process ensures fair treatment and procedures, while the burden of proof places the burden on the prosecution to prove guilt. This maintains the presumption of innocence.
United States v. Claxton, 76 M.J. 356 (the suppression by the prosecution of evidence favorable to an accused upon request violates due process where the evidence is material either to guilt or to punishment, irrespective of the good faith or bad faith of the prosecution).
Governmental actors violate due process when they frustrate the fairness of proceedings, such as when a prosecutor fails to disclose evidence to a criminal defendant that suggests they may be innocent of the crime, or when a judge is biased against a criminal defendant or a party in a civil action.
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 ...