Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/Fourteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution

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Statements (51)

Predicate	Object
gptkbp:instanceOf	gptkb:constitutional_law
gptkbp:adoptedBy	July 9, 1868
gptkbp:appliesTo	all persons within United States jurisdiction states of the United States
gptkbp:author	gptkb:Joint_Committee_on_Reconstruction
gptkbp:category	gptkb:Reconstruction_Era gptkb:Amendments_to_the_United_States_Constitution 1868 in American law Civil rights in the United States
gptkbp:contains	gptkb:Due_Process_Clause gptkb:Privileges_or_Immunities_Clause gptkb:Equal_Protection_Clause gptkb:Citizenship_Clause
gptkbp:enforcedBy	gptkb:United_States_Congress federal courts
gptkbp:enforcementPower	gptkb:United_States_Congress
gptkbp:followedBy	gptkb:Fifteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label	Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
gptkbp:influenced	gptkb:Brown_v._Board_of_Education gptkb:Roe_v._Wade gptkb:Obergefell_v._Hodges gptkb:Loving_v._Virginia gptkb:Bush_v._Gore
gptkbp:limitation	state governments
gptkbp:location	gptkb:Article_XIV
gptkbp:nickname	gptkb:Equal_Protection_Amendment gptkb:Reconstruction_Amendment
gptkbp:partOf	gptkb:United_States_Constitution
gptkbp:precededBy	gptkb:Thirteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution
gptkbp:prohibits	states from denying any person equal protection of the laws states from abridging privileges or immunities of citizens states from depriving any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law
gptkbp:purpose	guarantee equal protection of the laws grant citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States address post-Civil War issues prohibit states from denying due process
gptkbp:ratifiedBy	gptkb:United_States_Congress
gptkbp:relatedTo	gptkb:Reconstruction_Amendments
gptkbp:section	5 Section 1: Citizenship, Due Process, Equal Protection Section 2: Apportionment of Representatives Section 3: Disqualification from Office Section 4: Public Debt Section 5: Enforcement
gptkbp:significance	gptkb:incorporation_doctrine civil rights expansion of federal power
gptkbp:textBegins	Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States...
gptkbp:bfsParent	gptkb:United_States_v._Virginia gptkb:constitutional_law
gptkbp:bfsLayer	4