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How is citizenship defined in the fourteenth amendment and how has that definition altered the constitutional balance between the nation and the states?
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nationalizing it and giving it constitutional protection
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What is the definition for amendment?
The definition is: The act of amending or the state of being amended!!!!
What is an ammendment?
A constitutional amendment is a change to the constitution of a nation or astate.
What is a word that means a change to the constitution?
two-thirds of the House of Representatives and Senate must vote to change the constitution. then the amendment must be revised by the judicial branch to make sure that the amendment is constitutional
What does the acronym ERA mean?
One definition for ERA is Equal Rights Amendment.
Should amendments be capatilized?
Amendment, on its own, should not be capitalized. However, if you are specifying an amendment, such as the 1st, you must. For example: "Is there an amendment that protects Americans from cruel and unusual punishment?" "Yes, that is the Eighth Amendment."
What grants full citizenship to all individualize born in the US?
Fourteenth Amendment
How are the questions left unresolved at the Philadelphia convention addressed in the fourteenth amendment?
The Fourteenth Amendment establish equal rights and protection to all United States citizens. It covered citizenship, protection, legality, and equality that hadn't been an issue at the Constitutional Convention.
This makes state citizenship an automatic result of national citizenship?
The fourteenth amendment makes state citizenship an automatic result of national citizenship.
Which constitutional amendment expanded the definition of citizenship to include women's right to vote?
the twenty sixth amendment - apex
Which constitutional amendment extended citizenship to formerly enslaved people?
The correct answer is The 14th Amendment
How does the 14th amendment define citizenship?
The fourteenth amendment addresses citizenship. Initially it was in relation to the subject of slaves and their citizenship, but it has crossed over to citizenship in general.
Which Constitutional amendment extended to the states the restriction that a state cannot deny an individual his constitutional rights?
14th amendment
What were the terms of the fourteenth amendments?
The Fourteenth Amendment Rights Guaranteed Privileges and Immunities of Citizenship, Due Process and Equal Protection. The fourteenth amendment goes along with the thirteenth and fifteenth amendments.
What was the big problem with the bill of the rights before the passage of the fourteenth amendment?
Prior to the passage of the fourteenth amendment, the application of any constitutional protection was uneven. The fourteenth amendment was intended to force the equal application of constitutional protections to all persons. umm yeah this didn't answer my question
Which constitutional amendment allows the right to euthanasia?
The ninth, tenth, and fourteenth.
What was the fourteenth amendment about?
Right to citizenship. Guaranteed equal protection under the law
How did the fourteenth amendment guarantee citizenship to Africans?
they guranteed citizenship by giving the slaves the right to eat fried chicken
