A report on Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
Adopted on July 9, 1868, as one of the Reconstruction Amendments.
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Supreme Court of the United States
45 linksHighest court in the federal judiciary of the United States.
Highest court in the federal judiciary of the United States.
Under the White and Taft Courts (1910–1930), the court held that the Fourteenth Amendment had incorporated some guarantees of the Bill of Rights against the states (Gitlow v. New York), grappled with the new antitrust statutes (Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey v. United States), upheld the constitutionality of military conscription (Selective Draft Law Cases), and brought the substantive due process doctrine to its first apogee (Adkins v. Children's Hospital).
Equal Protection Clause
30 linksThe Equal Protection Clause is part of the first section of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
Incorporation of the Bill of Rights
24 linksDoctrine by which portions of the Bill of Rights have been made applicable to the states.
Doctrine by which portions of the Bill of Rights have been made applicable to the states.
Gradually, various portions of the Bill of Rights have been held to be applicable to the state and local governments by incorporation through the Fourteenth Amendment in 1868 and the Fifteenth Amendment in 1870.
Constitution of the United States
28 linksSupreme law of the United States of America.
Supreme law of the United States of America.
The Fourteenth Amendment (1868) granted United States citizenship to former slaves and to all persons "subject to U.S. jurisdiction".
Due Process Clause
16 linksIn United States constitutional law, a Due Process Clause is found in both the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution, which prohibits arbitrary deprivation of "life, liberty, or property" by the government except as authorized by law.
Reconstruction era
27 linksPeriod in American history following the American Civil War ; it lasted from 1865 to 1877 and marked a significant chapter in the history of civil rights in the United States.
Period in American history following the American Civil War ; it lasted from 1865 to 1877 and marked a significant chapter in the history of civil rights in the United States.
It proclaimed the newly freed slaves (freedmen; black people) citizens with (ostensibly) the same civil rights as those of whites; these rights were nominally guaranteed by three new constitutional amendments: the 13th, 14th, and 15th, collectively known as the Reconstruction Amendments.
Roe v. Wade
13 linksLandmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that the Constitution of the United States granted the right to have an abortion.
Landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that the Constitution of the United States granted the right to have an abortion.
On January 22, 1973, the Supreme Court issued a 7–2 decision holding that the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution provides a fundamental "right to privacy", which protects a pregnant woman's right to an abortion.
Privileges or Immunities Clause
12 linksAmendment XIV, Section 1, Clause 2 of the United States Constitution.
Amendment XIV, Section 1, Clause 2 of the United States Constitution.
Along with the rest of the Fourteenth Amendment, this clause became part of the Constitution on July 9, 1868.
Obergefell v. Hodges
11 linksObergefell v. Hodges,, is a landmark civil rights case in which the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that the fundamental right to marry is guaranteed to same-sex couples by both the Due Process Clause and the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
Substantive due process
10 linksPrinciple in United States constitutional law that allows courts to establish and protect certain fundamental rights from government interference, even if procedural protections are present or the rights are unenumerated elsewhere in the U.S. Constitution.
Principle in United States constitutional law that allows courts to establish and protect certain fundamental rights from government interference, even if procedural protections are present or the rights are unenumerated elsewhere in the U.S. Constitution.
Courts have asserted that such protections come from the due process clauses of the Fifth and Fourteenth amendments to the U.S. Constitution, which prohibit the federal and state governments, respectively, from depriving any person of "life, liberty, or property, without due process of law".