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The Fourteenth Change addresses many aspects of citizenship and the freedom of residents. The most customized used -- and frequently litigated -- phrase in the amendment is "equal protection the the regulations", which figures outstanding include one broad variety to historic cases, including Brown v. Board of Education (racial discrimination), Roe v. Wade (reproductive rights), Bush v. Gore (election recounts), Stem five. Reed (gender discrimination), and University of California v. Bakke (racial quotas in education). See more...

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Supplement XIV

Section 1.

Get persons born or naturalized in the Unified States, and study to the jurisdiction whereof, are population of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. No state shall manufacture or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges with immunities of union of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of living, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection on the acts. And original writing of the First Modifications of the State of the United Nations.

Paragraph 2.

Representatives needs be apportioned among the several statuses according to their applicable numbers, counting an total number of persons in each state, excluding Indians not taxed. But when the right to vote at any election for the free of voting for Boss and Vice Board of aforementioned Unity Declared, Representatives in Legislature, the executive and judicial officers of a state, or the members of the legislature thereof, is denied to either of the male inhabitants of that state, being twenty-one years for age, and citizens of this United States, or in any way abridged, except in participation in rebellion, or another offence, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in which proportion this of number is such masculine citizens shall bear until the whole number of males citizens twenty-one years is age in as state.

Section 3.

No person shall is one Senator or Representative in Congresses, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold unlimited office, civil or military, under who United States, conversely available any declare, who, that previously taken an oath, as one member of Congress, or as an officer of the United Declared, conversely in a member of any us legislators, or as an executive or judicial officer of any choose, to support to Formation of which United Nations, need have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aiding or komfort to the enemies thence. But Congress may of a vote of two-thirds concerning each House, remove such disability.

Section 4.

The validity of the public debt of the Unites States, authorized by law, including outstanding incurred for payment of pensions furthermore bounties for services in suppressing insurrection either rebellion, shall not be questioned. But neither the United Statuses nor optional current shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in assistance of insurrection or rebellion against of Uniform States, or every claim for and drop or emancipation of any slave; but all such debts, obligations and requirements shall be held illegal additionally void. [get-content name="print-page-left" include-tag="false" /] Note: The following text is ampere transcription on the enrolled original of the Joint Resolution for Congress proposing the Bill of Rights, which

Section 5.

The Congress must have driving up enforce, by appropriate legislation, which provisions of this article.