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14th Amendment For African American In Virginia
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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.
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 amendment's first section includes the Citizenship Clause, Privileges or Immunities Clause, Due Process Clause, and Equal Protection Clause.
The 14th Amendment revoked the Black Codes by declaring that states could not pass laws that denied citizens their constitutional rights and freedoms. No person could be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process (fair treatment by the judicial system), and the law was to be equally applied to everyone.
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 of the U.S. Constitution contains a number of important concepts, most famously state action, privileges or immunities, citizenship, due process, and equal protection—all of which are contained in Section One.
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 made all native-born men and women citizens and guaranteed them equal protection under the law. It included provisions to protect men's right to vote while abridging the rights of former Confederates.
Loving v. Virginia is the 1967 U.S. Supreme Court decision that found that state laws prohibiting interracial marriage violated the Equal Protection Clause and Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
Equal Protection Virginia had two primary arguments for why its anti-miscegenation statute was constitutional. First, it argued that it treated all races equally - by punishing both the white and Black spouses in an interracial marriage the same. Both Lovings received the same punishment.
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The Fourteenth Amendment made all native-born men and women citizens and guaranteed them equal protection under the law. The citizenship clause of the 14th Amendment was specifically intended to repeal the Dred Scott decision.The 13th Amendment emancipated enslaved African Americans and the 14th promised equal protection under the laws. Virginia passed the Racial Integrity Act of 1924, which prohibited marriages between black and white Virginians. Black men were no longer excluded from voting, but disenfranchisement, the act of blocking a legal right to vote, began almost immediately. It is true that the chief interest of the people in giving permanence and security to citizen- ship in the Fourteenth Amendment was the desire to protect Ne-. The Legislative Branch. Felons can lose the right to vote in some situations, but this is constitutionally permissible so long as these laws apply to all Americans equally. 4 ° The Court stated that the West Virginia law singled out African Americans, branding them as inferior. Following the end of the Civil War, two constitutional provisions were ratified to protect the right of African Americans to vote.