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14th Amendment Document With Slavery In Washington
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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.
Section 2 Apportionment of Representation 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.
Amendment XIV, Section 2 eliminated the three-fifths rule, specifically stating that representation to the House is to be divided among the states ing to their respective numbers, counting all persons in each state (except Native Americans who were not taxed).
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.
Cite the United States Constitution, 14th Amendment, Section 2. CORRECT CITATION: U.S. Const. amend. XIV, § 2.
Government is instituted for their protection, security, and benefit, and they have the right to alter or reform it when the public good may require. (Sec.
Section 2 of the Fourteenth Amendment focuses on the way individual citizens are counted to determine electoral power for the states.
In short, under Section Two of the Fourteenth Amendment, if a state denies men the right to vote, then that state can lose representation in Congress.
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. 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 was the most controversial and far-reaching of these three Reconstruction Amendments.