The Fourteenth Amendment, critical in the fight for civil liberties, was certified as part of the Constitution on July 28, 1868. It encoded citizenship and due process for former slaves.
President Trump considers restricting birthright citizenship laws. Former deputy assistant attorney general John Yoo weighs in.The Fourteenth Amendment, considered by both scholars and ordinary Americans to be one of the most consequential assurances of civil liberties in U.S. history, was certified as part ofCongress passed it on June 13 and it was ratified by the requisite 28 of then-37 states on July 9, 1868.
"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 was the second of three Reconstruction Era-amendments adopted in rapid succession after, as the United States rushed to encode the liberties secured at the horrific cost of human carnage during the conflict.
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