The original text of the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States.

Fourteenth Amendment Equal Protection and Other Rights Amdt14.1 Overview of Fourteenth Amendment, Equal Protection and Rights of Citizens Amdt14.2 State Action Doctrine Section 1 …

An annotation about the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States.

Browse the Constitution Annotated Fourteenth Amendment Equal Protection and Other Rights Section 1 Rights All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are …

The Fourteenth Amendment prohibits states from depriving any person of life, liberty, or property without due process of law. The Supreme Court has held that this protection extends to all natural persons …

In the wake of the war, the Congress submitted, and the states ratified the Thirteenth Amendment (making slavery illegal), the Fourteenth Amendment (defining and granting broad rights of national …

Congress on July 21, 1868, passed a joint resolution declaring the Amendment a part of the Constitution and directing the Secretary to promulgate it as such. On July 28, 1868, Secretary Seward certified …

An annotation about the Fourteenth Amendment, Section 3, 1 Overview of the Insurrection Clause (Disqualification Clause) of the Constitution of the United States.

Fourteenth Amendment, 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.

Following the ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment, litigants challenging state laws and policies pursued several different strategies to raise constitutional challenges under the Fourteenth Amendment.