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14th Amendment In Simple Terms In Travis
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The Fourteenth Amendment is an amendment to the United States Constitution that was adopted in 1868. It granted citizenship and equal civil and legal rights to African Americans and enslaved people who had been emancipated after the American Civil War.
The Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause provides that no state may deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.
14th Amendment. Declares that all persons born in the U.S. are citizens and are guaranteed equal protection of the laws.
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.
The Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States granted citizenship and equal civil and legal rights to anyone born in the United States or who became a citizen of the country. This included African Americans and slaves who had been freed after the American Civil War.
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.
Congress passed the 14th Amendment in 1868 which gave blacks citizenship, and granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States.
The Fourteenth Amendment forbids the states from depriving any person of “life, liberty, or property, without due process of law” and from denying anyone equal protection under the law.
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.
Equal Protection The Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment provides that “No state shall . . . deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.” 1 The most famous. case applying the Equal Protection Clause to schools is Brown v.
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4 The proposed amendment as it passed the House contained no such provision, and it was decided in the Senate to include language like that finally adopted. The 14th Amendment to the US Constitution provides that, with few discrete exceptions, people born in the United States are citizens of this country.All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United. The Citizenship Clause granted citizenship to All persons born or naturalized in the United States. It established the principle of birthright citizenship, meaning a person born in the U.S. is automatically a citizen. Amendment 14: Section 3 no citizen can become a member of the government if they took part in the rebellion. The amendment's first section includes the Citizenship Clause, Privileges or Immunities Clause, Due Process Clause, and Equal Protection Clause. Video: Eric Foner on the Origins and Meaning of the 14th Amendment. Next, complete the Activity Guide: Introduction to the 14th Amendment worksheet.