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14th Amendment In The Constitution In Virginia
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The amendment's first section includes the Citizenship Clause, Privileges or Immunities Clause, Due Process Clause, and Equal Protection Clause.
The Fourteenth Amendment only applies to actions by state governments (state actions), not private actions. Consider, for example, Obergefell, which involved the fundamental right to marry. Some state laws interfered with that right.
The disqualification clause of the Fourteenth Amendment prevents public officials who engage in treason from holding a future public office. This amendment dates back to the Reconstruction Era to prevent members of the Confederacy from resuming power after the Civil War ended.
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.
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. Section 2.
Any amendment or amendments to this Constitution may be proposed in the Senate or House of Delegates, and if the same shall be agreed to by a majority of the members elected to each of the two houses, such proposed amendment or amendments shall be entered on their journals, the name of each member and how he voted to ...
Constitutional Amendments – Amendment 14 – “Citizenship, Equal Protection, Apportionment, and War Debts”
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 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.
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The Fourteenth Amendment made all native-born men and women citizens and guaranteed them equal protection under the law. The Governor shall have power to fill vacancies in all offices of the Commonwealth for the filling of which the Constitution and laws make no other provision.Among them was the Fourteenth Amendment, which prohibits the states from depriving "any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law. The 14th Amendment provides, in part, that no state can "deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. Privileges and immunities clause of state citizenship set out in Article IV, §2. Section Five of the Fourteenth Amendment vests Congress with the authority to adopt "appropriate" legislation to enforce the other parts of the Amendment. The disqualification clause of the Fourteenth Amendment prevents public officials who engage in treason from holding a future public office. This is a detail of "Article XIV" of the U.S. Constitution that passed both houses of the U.S. Congress in June 1866. The 14th Amendment to the Constitution is one of the nation's most important laws relating to citizenship and civil rights. The 14th Amendment to the Constitution is one of the nation's most important laws relating to citizenship and civil rights.