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14th Amendment For African American In Pennsylvania
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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.
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.
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.
15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Voting Rights (1870) Passed by Congress February 26, 1869, and ratified February 3, 1870, the 15th Amendment granted African American men the right to vote.
Section Five of the Fourteenth Amendment vests Congress with the authority to adopt “appropriate” legislation to enforce the other parts of the Amendment—most notably, the provisions of Section One.
The amendment's first section includes the Citizenship Clause, Privileges or Immunities Clause, Due Process Clause, and Equal Protection Clause.
Section Two: 14th Amendment This section also guaranteed that all male citizens over age 21, no matter their race, had a right to vote. Southern states continued to deny Black men the right to vote using a collection of state and local statutes during the Jim Crow era.
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 Fourteenth Amendment was designed to assure to the colored race the enjoyment of all the civil rights that under the law are enjoyed by white persons, and to give to that race the protection of the general government in that enjoyment, whenever it should be denied by the States.
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The 14th Amendment established African Americans as equal citizens of the United States. This amendment overturned the 1857 Dred Scott v.If you feel your rights have been violated under the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment in Philadelphia, PA, contact H. Rosen Law, P.C.. The 14th Amendment wrote the Declaration of Independence's promise of freedom and equality into the Constitution. It transformed the Constitution forever. The Fourteenth Amendment addresses many aspects of citizenship and the rights of citizens. Congress overrode President Andrew Johnson's veto and went even further, passing the 14th Amendment. The 14th Amendment was the result of local struggles and national debates on the political status of AfricanAmericans in the wake of slavery and the Civil War. The Citizenship Clause broadly defines citizenship, superseding the Supreme Court's decision in Dred Scott v. The Emancipation Proclamation took effect on January 1, 1863, granting freedom to all enslaved people within rebelling territories.