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The Fourteenth Amendment sets a definition for citizenship, including the Constitutional rights of slaves and their descendants.
Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. 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. Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed. But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the Executive and Judicial officers of a State, or the members of the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State, being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion, or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such State. Section 3. No one shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability. Section 4. The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned. But neither the United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or any claim for the loss or emancipation of any slave; but all such debts, obligations and claims shall be held illegal and void. Section 5. The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.
All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. 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 prohibited the state and federal governments from denying the right to vote to any male citizen because of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
This amendment was originally intended to provide more rights to African Americans, but, over time, it has been interpreted to grant a number of rights to people living in the United States.
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What grants full citizenship to all individualize born in the US?
Fourteenth Amendment
When did Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of Pakistan happen?
Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of Pakistan happened in 1997.
Which two amendments in the constitution do both justice fortas and justice black refer to?
The Fourteenth Amendment
The Fifth Amendment protects people from federal government interference. Which amendment protects people from interference by each state government?
The Fourteenth Amendment o.O
The source of authority cited by the Supreme Court for applying the Bill of Rights to the states is?
the fourteenth amendment to the constitution
When was the 14th Amendment ratified?
The Fourteenth Amendment was ratified in 1868.
Which amendment sought to protect voting rights?
Fourteenth Amendment
What were the reasons behind the fourteenth amendment?
To protect the rights of freedmen. The Fourteenth Amendment guaranteed equality under the law for all citizens!
What were the terms of the fourteenth amendments?
The Fourteenth Amendment Rights Guaranteed Privileges and Immunities of Citizenship, Due Process and Equal Protection. The fourteenth amendment goes along with the thirteenth and fifteenth amendments.
Was there an amendment that legalized slavery?
Yes, the fourteenth amendment legalized slavery.
How did Miranda v Arizona effect the Fourteenth Amendment?
Miranda v. Arizona, (1966) didn't affect the Fourteenth Amendment; the Fourteenth Amendment allowed the US Supreme Court's decision to be applied to the states via the Due Process Clause.
The congressional alternative to Andrew Johnson's Reconstruction program was the?
The Fourteenth Amendment was the congressional alternative to President Johnson's Reconstruction program. The amendment was adopted on July 9, 1868.
