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Conclusion: The 14th amendment to the constitution was meant to grant citizenship and equal economic rights. But the amendment ended up in creating duopolies and oligopolies. As a result, the constitutional change did not help the masses, and African Americans remained poor for a very long time.
All Debts contracted and Engagements entered into, before the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be as valid against the United States under this Constitution, as under the Confederation.
On July 28, 1868, the final state necessary for ratification of the amendment agreed to it. Many white Ohioans initially approved of the Fourteenth Amendment. Members of the Union Party, a group of Ohio's Republican Party and pro-war Democrats, strongly supported the amendment.
A major provision of the 14th Amendment was to grant citizenship to “All persons born or naturalized in the United States,” thereby granting citizenship to formerly enslaved people.
The procedural protections (life, liberty, and property), the entire Bill of Rights (freedom of speech, right to bear arms, legal protection), and the non-enumerated fundamental rights of the citizen were all extended to every American citizen in the United States with the Fourteenth Amendment.
14th Amendment - Citizenship Rights, Equal Protection, Apportionment, Civil War Debt | Constitution Center.
14th Amendment - Citizenship Rights, Equal Protection, Apportionment, Civil War Debt | Constitution Center.
Ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment in the aftermath of the Civil War altered the states' role in the constitutional system by prohibiting states from “abridging the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States” and “depriving any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.” ...
The amendment's first section includes the Citizenship Clause, Privileges or Immunities Clause, Due Process Clause, and Equal Protection Clause. The Citizenship Clause broadly defines citizenship, superseding the Supreme Court's decision in Dred Scott v.
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.