14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/14th_Amendment_to_the_U.S._Constitution

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Statements (34)

Predicate	Object
gptkbp:instanceOf	gptkb:constitutional_law
gptkbp:adoptedBy	July 9, 1868
gptkbp:appliesTo	all states
gptkbp:awardedBy	citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States
gptkbp:contains	gptkb:Due_Process_Clause gptkb:Privileges_or_Immunities_Clause gptkb:Equal_Protection_Clause
gptkbp:enforcedBy	gptkb:United_States_Congress
gptkbp:followedBy	gptkb:15th_Amendment_to_the_U.S._Constitution
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label	14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
gptkbp:influenced	civil rights legislation incorporation of Bill of Rights to the states
gptkbp:location	gptkb:Article_XIV
gptkbp:overruledBy	Dred Scott v. Sandford decision regarding citizenship
gptkbp:partOf	gptkb:United_States_Constitution
gptkbp:precededBy	gptkb:13th_Amendment_to_the_U.S._Constitution
gptkbp:prohibits	states from denying any person life, liberty, or property without due process of law states from denying any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws
gptkbp:proposedBy	gptkb:39th_United_States_Congress
gptkbp:ratifiedBy	three-fourths of the states
gptkbp:section	5 addresses public debt and repudiates Confederate debt addresses apportionment of representatives gives Congress power to enforce the amendment defines citizenship and contains the Equal Protection, Due Process, and Privileges or Immunities Clauses bars certain former Confederates from holding office
gptkbp:usedIn	gptkb:Brown_v._Board_of_Education gptkb:Plessy_v._Ferguson gptkb:Roe_v._Wade gptkb:Obergefell_v._Hodges gptkb:Loving_v._Virginia gptkb:Bush_v._Gore
gptkbp:bfsParent	gptkb:Article_I,_Section_2_of_the_U.S._Constitution
gptkbp:bfsLayer	6