Fourteenth Amendment

How To Use Fourteenth Amendment In A Sentence

• This expansive alteration of the Federal System was to have been achieved by converting the rights of the citizens of each State as of the date of the adoption of the Fourteenth Amendment into privileges and immunities of United States citizenship and thereafter perpetuating this newly defined _status quo_ through judicial condemnation of any State law challenged as "abridging" any one of the latter privileges. The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation Annotations of Cases Decided by the Supreme Court of the United States to June 30, 1952
• That's all well and good, but what Keyes omits is the subsequent history of the country, and in particular the effect of the Fourteenth Amendment. Balkinization
• More concretely, the Equal Protection Clause, along with the rest of the Fourteenth Amendment, marked a great shift in American constitutionalism.
• The Fourteenth Amendment says states may not deny anyone the equal protection of the laws.
• Kay said the ruling violates the Fourteenth Amendment, and could affect landmark rulings on reproductive rights.
• The part of this clause relating to the mode of apportionment of representatives among the several States was changed by the Fourteenth Amendment, and as to taxes on incomes without apportionment, by the Sixteenth Amendment.
• Nor can they claim that Lochner violates the original meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment, since these legal analysts by and large reject originalism altogether.
• The Fourteenth Amendment gave citizenship to anyone born in the United States and guaranteed equal protection to all people.
• In America, the freedom of speech is protected by the first and the fourteenth Amendment of the Federal Constitution.
• Reargument was largely devoted to the circumstances surrounding the adoption of the Fourteenth Amendment in 1868.