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Fourteenth Amendment 1868
Rights of citizens / equal protection of the laws
Fourteenth Amendment Rights of citizens / equal protection of the laws
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. 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 bea to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such state.
Section 3. 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. 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." https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/amendmentxiv
The Fourteenth Amendment addresses many aspects of citizenship and the rights of citizens.
The most commonly used -- and frequently litigated -- phrase in the amendment is "equal protection of the laws", which figures prominently in a wide variety of landmark cases, including Brown v. Board of Education (racial discrimination), Roe v. Wade (reproductive rights), Bush v. Gor (election recounts), Reed v. Reed (gender discrimination), and University of California v. Bakke (racial quotas in education). https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/amendmentxiv
https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/amendmentxiv https://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/14thamendment.html
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In 1917 the Supreme Court strikes down a racial zoning law in Louisville, Ky., that prohibits nonwhites from moving into homes in majority-white areas
Laws like these, which existed in numerous cities at the time, are part of a larger, shameful history of government-sponsored racial segregation.
In Buchanan v. Warley, the court ruled that such ordinances violate the 14th Amendment and related statutes that “entitle a colored man to acquire property without state legislation discriminating against him solely because of his color.”
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245 U.S. 60 https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/245/60
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