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  2. Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution

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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.

  3. List of amendments to the Constitution of the United States

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    Thirty-three amendments to the Constitution of the United States have been proposed by the United States Congress and sent to the states for ratification since the Constitution was put into operation on March 4, 1789. Twenty-seven of those, having been ratified by the requisite number of states, are part of the Constitution.

  4. Trump is trying to undo the 14th amendment. Historians are ...

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    A draft of the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which was ratified in 1868 and guarantees birthright citizenship (Getty Images) Trump used the “subject to the jurisdiction thereof ...

  5. 24 Democratic states and cities sue over Trump’s bid to end ...

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    The Supreme Court has upheld birthright citizenship in the past and there is also a federal law passed by Congress, predating the 14th Amendment’s 1868 ratification, establishing that children ...

  6. 1957 Georgia Memorial to Congress - Wikipedia

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    The 1957 Georgia Memorial to Congress was a joint resolution by the legislature of the state of Georgia, and approved by Georgia Governor Marvin Griffin on March 8, 1957, urging the Congress of the United States to declare the 14th and 15th Amendments null and void [1] because of purported violations of the Constitution during the post-Civil War ratification process.

  7. What to know about the 14th Amendment and efforts to ... - AOL

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    What does the 14th Amendment say? The 14th Amendment, which was ratified after the Civil War, says US officials who take an oath to uphold the Constitution are disqualified from holding future ...

  8. List of U.S. states by date of admission to the Union - Wikipedia

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    The following table is a list of all 50 states and their respective dates of statehood. The first 13 became states in July 1776 upon agreeing to the United States Declaration of Independence, and each joined the first Union of states between 1777 and 1781, upon ratifying the Articles of Confederation, its first constitution. [6]

  9. What is the 14th Amendment and how does it apply to ... - AOL

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    The 14th Amendment was ratified in 1868 after the Civil War, ... Section 1 states, "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of ...