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14th Amendment To Us Constitution Summary In Virginia
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Passed by Congress June 13, 1866, and ratified July 9, 1868, the 14th Amendment extended liberties and rights granted by the Bill of Rights to formerly enslaved people.
Virginia: June 25, 1788. New York: July 26, 1788. North Carolina: November 21, 1789.
On October 8, 1869, Virginia voted to ratify the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments as part of the requirement for being readmitted to the Union. The act readmitting Virginia to the Union and its representatives into Congress was signed by President Ulysses S. Grant on January 26, 1870.
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.
Passed by the Senate on June 8, 1866, and ratified two years later, on July 9, 1868, the Fourteenth Amendment granted citizenship to all persons "born or naturalized in the United States," including formerly enslaved people, and provided all citizens with “equal protection under the laws,” extending the provisions of ...
Virginia's General Assembly ratified the amendment on October 8, 1869. Of the 181 members of the legislature, thirty were Black men who were the first African American assembly members in the state's history.
Why was the Fourteenth Amendment controversial in women's rights circles? This is because, for the first time, the proposed Amendment added the word "male" into the US Constitution.