The Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution contains the Citizenship Clause‚ the Due Process Clause‚ and the Equal Protection Clause. The Citizenship Clause maintains the citizenship of individuals who were born or naturalized in the United States. The Due Process Clause maintains that a state is prohibited from denying an individual of “life‚ liberty‚ or property‚ without due process of law.” The Equal Protection Clause prohibits a state from denying an individual “within its jurisdiction
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Bill of Rights and Amendments 13‚ 14‚ and 15 HIS 301 July 18‚ 2012 Bill of Rights and Amendments 13‚ 14‚ and 15 "The Constitution is the highest law in the United States" (U.S. Constitution‚ 2010‚ para. 1). The Constitution is the building block for the United States government‚ and each law separate from the Constitution is some derivative of the document. The Constitution assisted in creating Congress‚ the Presidency‚ and the Supreme Court. Over the course of the United States ’ history many items
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The Fourteenth Amendment By a thirty-three to eleven vote‚ the Fourteenth Amendment was passed. Although‚ on July 9th‚ 1868 the Fourteenth Amendment was ratified to include‚ all natural born citizens as well as the protection of life‚ liberty and property. The purpose of the Fourteenth Amendment was to protect all the rights of the American people. There have been a few cases recently that were brought to the U.S. Supreme Court. One of the more recent U.S. Supreme Court cases is that of Obergefell
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* Identify six key characteristics of the U.S. Constitution. 1. Constitutions are a higher form of law that speak with a political authority that no ordinary law or other government action can ever match. 2. Constitutions express the will of the whole people. 3. Constitutions always bind the government. 4. Constitutions can’t be changed by the government. 5. Only the direct action of the whole people can change constitutions. 6. Constitutions embody the fundamental values of the people.
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strongest defense to this law can be found in The United States Constitution‚ in Article VI‚ section 3‚ which clearly prohibits the denial to anyone to vote based on several key points. Specifically‚ the Voting Rights act of 1965 and the 24th amendment has provided that no voting right shall be denied for failure to pay a poll or tax to the federal government. What the Republicans are trying to do clearly violates the 24th Amendment of the Constitution‚ and is therefore a strong defense against such
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Citizenship in the United States has been a sought-after dream by many people in the World. It is the reason we are the “great melting pot”‚ and the reason for the many mass immigrations that have taken place to the United States. Over the course of two centuries‚ there has been much turmoil in United States politics about giving citizenship status to immigrants. Most of the latter reasoning for not wanting to grant citizenship has been blamed justly on the prejudice of American Society. The Supreme
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the past‚ the United States established the Articles of Confederation‚ giving states the opportunity to govern themselves through elected officials‚ but this proved to be a weak government system because Congress did not have any power to regulate domestic affairs (Ushistory.org‚ 2014) Since challenges were arising‚ the idea of government needed to be revised to protect individual rights and to support the majority rules concept. With the people in mind‚ the farmers of the Constitution responded by
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Braswell v. United States Introduction The Fifth Amendment of US Constitution provides a significant protection for accused persons. In particular‚ the Fifth Amendment provides guarantees for due process‚ protection against double jeopardy and against the self-incrimination. My paper focuses on the guarantee against the self-incrimination. Thus‚ the Fifth Amendment stipulates that no person “shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself”. At the same time‚ it is not specified
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the Fourteenth Amendment was intended to protect the newly freed slaves from discriminatory action by state governments. A state was prohibited from depriving “any person of life‚ liberty‚ or property without due process of law‚” from denying “any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws‚” and from abridging “the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States.” In 1890‚ the Louisiana General Assembly enacted a Separate Car Law requiring railroads in the state to
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position in society African-American’s place in society has changed grandually over the years. Starting on January 1‚ 1863 when Abraham Lincoln issued his Emancipation Proclamtion which states‚ "I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves within these said designated states and are parts of states are and henceforward shall be free..." (172). During the 1870’s racial segregation laws passed to separate blacks and whites in public and private areas. These laws soon came to be known as
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