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The Fourteenth Amendment (Amendment XIV) to the United States Constitution was adopted on July 9, 1868, as one of the Reconstruction Amendments.Usually considered one of the most consequential amendments, it addresses citizenship rights and equal protection under the law and was proposed in response to issues related to formerly enslaved Americans following the American Civil War.
The Fourteenth amendment was ratified by nervous Republicans in response to the rise of Black Codes. [14] This ratification was irregular in many ways. First, there were multiple states that rejected the Fourteenth Amendment, but when their new governments were created due to reconstruction, these new governments accepted the amendment. [15]
Ratified in 1868, interpretations of the 14th Amendment have been key in extending a slew of legal protections including civil rights, same-sex marriage, abortion rights, and beyond. Here’s what ...
For example, the Court has held that the Fourteenth Amendment protects the right to freedom of speech, [18] the right to bear arms, [19] and the right to counsel, [20] among other rights. 2022 Supreme Court decision on Roe v.
What does the 14th Amendment say about citizenship by birth. The 14th Amendment was ratified in 1868 coming out of the Civil War, granting citizenship and rights to formerly enslaved people.
The American Civil War brought slavery in the United States to an end with the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment in 1865. [10] Following the war, the Fourteenth Amendment guaranteed equal protection under the law to all people, and Congress established the Freedmen's Bureau to assist in the integration of former slaves into Southern society.
In 1919, Congress used the 14th Amendment to bar Victor Berger, a socialist from Wisconsin and an elected official, from joining the House because he actively opposed the US entering World War I.
The Civil Rights Cases, 109 U.S. 3 (1883), were a group of five landmark cases in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments did not empower Congress to outlaw racial discrimination by private individuals.