U.S. Constitution Fourteenth Amendment

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/U.S._Constitution_Fourteenth_Amendment

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Predicate	Object
gptkbp:instanceOf	gptkb:constitutional_law
gptkbp:adoptedBy	1868-07-09
gptkbp:appliesTo	states all persons born or naturalized in the United States
gptkbp:enforcedBy	gptkb:United_States_Congress
gptkbp:firstStateToRatify	gptkb:Connecticut
gptkbp:historicalName	gptkb:Reconstruction_Era
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label	U.S. Constitution Fourteenth Amendment
gptkbp:influenced	gptkb:Brown_v._Board_of_Education gptkb:Shelby_County_v._Holder gptkb:Plessy_v._Ferguson gptkb:Roe_v._Wade gptkb:Obergefell_v._Hodges gptkb:Griswold_v._Connecticut gptkb:Loving_v._Virginia gptkb:United_States_v._Wong_Kim_Ark gptkb:Bush_v._Gore
gptkbp:lastStateToRatify	gptkb:Georgia
gptkbp:location	gptkb:Article_XIV
gptkbp:nickname	gptkb:Equal_Protection_Amendment gptkb:Reconstruction_Amendment
gptkbp:number	14
gptkbp:partOf	gptkb:United_States_Constitution
gptkbp:prohibits	states from abridging privileges or immunities of citizens states from denying life, liberty, or property without due process states from denying equal protection of the laws
gptkbp:proposedBy	gptkb:39th_United_States_Congress
gptkbp:purpose	address public debt address representation in Congress guarantee equal protection of the laws grant citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States prohibit states from denying due process disqualify former Confederates from office
gptkbp:ratificationRequired	three-fourths of the states
gptkbp:ratifiedBy	gptkb:United_States
gptkbp:relatedTo	gptkb:Thirteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution gptkb:Fifteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution
gptkbp:section	gptkb:Due_Process_Clause gptkb:Equal_Protection_Clause gptkb:Citizenship_Clause 5 Apportionment of Representatives Enforcement by Congress Public debt validity Disqualification from office for insurrection
gptkbp:significance	foundation for civil rights jurisprudence in the United States
gptkbp:textBegins	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.
gptkbp:bfsParent	gptkb:Romer_v._Evans
gptkbp:bfsLayer	6