The Constitution of the United States: Amendment 14 (Fourteenth Amendment – Citizenship Rights, Privileges or Immunities, Due Process, Equal Protection, Apportionment of Representatives, Civil War Disqualification and Debt )
The Constitution of the United States: Amendment 14 (14th Amendment)
Amendment XIV. (Citizenship Rights, Privileges or Immunities, Due Process, Equal Protection, Apportionment of Representatives, Civil War Disqualification and Debt)
Passed by Congress June 13, 1866. Ratified July 9, 1868.
Note: Article I, section 2, of the Constitution was modified by section 2 of the 14th 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. 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.
Constitutional protections apply to “persons” not just “citizens”
Section 2.
Representatives shall be apportioned 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 bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such State.
Section 3.
No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, 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.
The validity of the public debt of the United States, 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 the power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.
* Changed by section 1 of the 26th amendment.
More
- The Constitution of the United States: Amendments 11-27, from The National Archives
- Fourteenth Amendment – CRS Annotated Constitution
- Fourteenth Amendment – Wikipedia
- Fourteenth Amendment – Findlaw
- The Constitution of the United States: A Transcription – The National Archives
- United States Constitution: Texts, Commentaries, Historical Texts and Judicial Decisions – Law Library of Congress
- The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation – FDsys
- Privileges or Immunities Clause – Wikipedia
- “Federalism and the Constitution: Limits on Congressional Power,” CRS Report RL30315
- “Ratification of Amendments to the U.S. Constitution,” CRS Report 97-922
- “7 stages of the office seeker“
- Congress
- Apportionment
- Reapportionment
- “Equal Rights Amendment (Proposed),” CRS Report IB74122
- “Expedited Citizenship Through Military Service: Policy and Issues,” CRS Report RL31884
- “Federal Civil Rights Statutes: A Primer,” CRS Report RS22251
- “Congress’ Power to Legislate Control Over Hate Crimes,” CRS Report RS22335
- “Substantive Due Process and a Right to Clone,” CRS Report RL31422
14th Amendment: Cases in Controversy
Thomas Woods: Fourteenth Amendment
Religion, Early America and the 14th Amendment
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