The original text of the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States. Read and mark up Sections 1 and 5 of the 14th Amendment.Summarize the big ideas for each section in one or two sentences. The 14th Amendment's powerful language transformed the Constitution forever. The 14th Amendment to the Constitution is one of the nation's most important laws relating to citizenship and civil rights. The 1789 Joint Resolution of Congress proposing the amendments is on display in the Rotunda in the National Archives Museum. Additionally, the Constitution specifies that no amendment can deny a State equal representation in the Senate without that State's consent. We must look to see if the interest is within the Fourteenth Amendment's protection of liberty and property. Could we have the first slide with the text on it? The next slide. Thanks.