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The Fourteenth Amendment (Amendment XIV) to the United States Constitution was adopted on July 9, 1868, as one of the Reconstruction Amendments.Usually considered one of the most consequential amendments, it addresses citizenship rights and equal protection under the law and was proposed in response to issues related to formerly enslaved Americans following the American Civil War.
The Fourteenth Amendment (proposed in 1866 and ratified in 1868) addresses citizenship rights and equal protection of the laws for all persons. The Fifteenth Amendment (proposed in 1869 and ratified in 1870) prohibits discrimination in voting rights of citizens on the basis of "race, color, or previous condition of servitude." [3]
The 14th Amendment was born from Black activism. Following the Civil War, Congress passed three Constitutional amendments designed to promote racial justice. One abolished slavery. One allowed ...
The Fourteenth amendment was ratified by nervous Republicans in response to the rise of Black Codes. [14] This ratification was irregular in many ways. First, there were multiple states that rejected the Fourteenth Amendment, but when their new governments were created due to reconstruction, these new governments accepted the amendment. [15]
Ratified in 1868, interpretations of the 14th Amendment have been key in extending a slew of legal protections including civil rights, same-sex marriage, abortion rights, and beyond. Here’s what ...
When amendment was ratified on July 9, 1868, it closed the door on schemes to make the U.S. a white man’s country How the 14th Amendment's Promise of Birthright Citizenship Redefined America ...
The only amendment to be ratified through this method thus far is the Twenty-first Amendment in 1933. That amendment is also the only one that explicitly repeals an earlier one, the Eighteenth Amendment (ratified in 1919), establishing the prohibition of alcohol.
The Fourteenth Amendment, ratified in the wake of the Civil War, guarantees U.S. citizenship to all those “born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof.”