Introduction
Aminata Dembele
1/21/14
Technology/Design
Unit 3 Lesson 3
AMENDMENT XIV
Passed by Congress June 13, 1866. Ratified July 9, 1868.
Note: Article I, section 2, of the Constitution was modified by section 2 of the 14th amendment.
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. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
Section 2.
Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed. But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice-President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the Executive and Judicial officers of a State, or the members of the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State, being twenty-one years of age,* and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion, or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such State.
Section 3.
No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.
Section 4.
The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned. But neither the United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or any claim for the loss or emancipation of any slave; but all such debts, obligations and claims shall be held illegal and void.
Section 5.
The Congress shall have the power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.
*Changed by section 1 of the 26th amendment.
SUMMARY
Amendment 14 : Any person that was born or rised in the united states are citizens of the united states. No state shall deprive any person life liberty, or property,with out due process of laws. The equal protection, of the laws. Having the rights to vote at any election for the choice of electors for the choice president and vice- president president of the United States.
Theme: The theme of this Amendment is that any united states citizen should have the right to vote on any elections and at any state. The race dont matter. No electors vote should not be denied because of their race and their gender and also having the an illegal age to vote.
The equal protection of the laws.
Task
Aminata Dembele
Class 804
1/29/14
Technology and design
Amendment 14
http://www.loc.gov/law/help/citizenship/fourteenth_amendment_citizenship.php
There were concerns that the Civil Rights Act might be subsequently repealed or limited the Congress took steps to include similar language when it considered the draft of the Fourteenth Amendment.
http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=true&doc=43
Following the civil war, congress submitted to the states three amendments as part of the reconstruction
http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/383766-u-s-citizenship-defined-who-is-an-american-citizen
Before the Fourteenth Amendment’s came out, the Constitution did not define citizenship. Citizenship was mentioned in Articles I and II, and in Article IV. To serve as a member of the House of Representatives, one must have been a citizen of the United States for seven years.
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1578092
After the Fourteenth Amendment, a native born citizen is a citizen of a State, and a native born citizen of the several States. http://www.law.cornell.edu/anncon/html/amdt14a user.html The 14th Amendment still stands as one of the most historically important building blocks to our country’s democracy.
http://americanhistory.about.com/od/usconstitution/a/14th-Amendment-Summary.htm
No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States
http://constitutioncenter.org/constitution/the-amendments/amendment-14-citizenship-rights
No American citizens should be judged .No state shall make or enforce any law should the privileges or immunities of citizen of the united states
http://kids.laws.com/14th-amendment
Deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
http://www.legalmatch.com/understanding-14th-amendment.htm
The majority of Southern states rejected this amendment, but it was still ratified because the necessary three-fourths of the states had agreed to pass it. In addition to offering equality for all people no matter what color of their skin
http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/common/generic/CivilWarAmendments.htm
The amendment prohibited former Confederate states from repaying war debts and compensating former slave owners for the emancipation of their slaves.
http://www.historytunes.com/13th%2014th%20and%2015th%20Amendments.php
The United States Constitution declared that all persons born or naturalized in the United States are American citizens including African Americans.
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/jb/recon/jb_recon_revised_1.html
The amendment grants citizenship to all person born or naturalized in the united states, which included former slaves who had just been freed after the civil war.
http://constitution.findlaw.com/amendment14/amendment.html
The right to vote at any election for the choice of the electors for president and vice president of the united state .
http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Amendment+14
his section also prohibits state governments from denying persons within their jurisdiction the privilegies or immunities of u.s . citizenship, , and guarantees to every such person due process and equal protection of the laws.
http://www.heritage.org/constitution/#!/amendments/14/essays/175/enforcement-clause
fourteenth amendent grants to congress the power to pass legislation directed at effectuating the provisions of section 1 throught 4 of the amendment.
The websites relates to my amendment since my task is about amendent 14 its about people in the united states has their rights. Like when a law is unbiased because of their race, or gender or others amendment 14 is about equal protection of the law.
Process
Aminata Dembele
804
2/25/14
Performance task 3
http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2080345_2080344_2080374,00.html
why should a often argued as protecting our right to privacy.
why is amendment 14 important?
Is protecting our right to privacy, and why?
Evaluation
Amarachi Ivoko
801
1. What did the Ku Klux Klan do to the African Americans?
The ku klux klan burned the african americans houses. They wanted to scare off new african american voters and racial republicans.
2. How does the book “To Kill a Mockingbird” shows us about the problems the African Americans faced in the past.
it relates because T.R was black and every body in the white neigborhood everybody was aganist him. Atticus was the only one to defend him.
3. How did the African Americans react to racism the ability to not be able to vote
The African Americans felt that they cant do any thing about it because of their race. Its not right they cant vote because of their race.So The african Americans just
http://www.schooltube.com/video/daac54193048437da47e/The%2015th%20Amend…
Conclusion
Aminata Dembele
804
2/25/14
Performance task 3
http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2080345_2080344_2080374,00.html
why should a often argued as protecting our right to privacy.
why is amendment 14 important?
Is protecting our right to privacy, and why?