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The fourteenth amendment forbids a state to deny any citizen on what?
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Fourteenth Amendment forbids any state to make or enforce any law to abridge the priviledges or immunities of any citizen nor shall deprive any person of life, liberty or property without due process to law nor deny equal protection of the laws.
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Which amendment requires that every state grant its citizens equal protection of the laws?
The 14th amendment prevents states from denying any citizen equal protection under the law. No state may pass a law which would abridge the rights granted US citizens by the Constitution.
The first Southern state to approve the Fourteenth Amendment and be readmitted to the Union was Louisiana?
No, that would be Tennesse.
How does the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment prevent state governments from practicing unfair discrimination?
The equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment prevents state governments from practicing unfair discrimination. States cannot make decisions based on race, religion, gender, and other qualities.
What did southern states have to do before they could reenter the Union?
Before being readmitted to the Union, each southern state that had been part of the Confederacy had to ratify the fourteenth amendment.
What legal right is the fifteenth amendment and for what group of people?
The Fifteenth Amendment (Amendment XV) to the United States Constitution prohibits the federal and state governments from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's "race, color, or previous condition of servitude." It was ratified on February 3, 1870, as the third and last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
Amendment 14 forbids a state to denty any citizen?
it forbids male citizens to vote but yes amendment 14
What amendment guarntees every citizen equal protection?
You're referring to the fourteenth amendment, which establishes naturalism and enforces federal regulation on the state governments.
How the fourteenth amendment limits the power of state governments?
In the Case Afroyim v. Rusk, the Supreme Court decides that the 14th amendment prevents congress from striping a citizen of their citizenship.
The Fifth Amendment protects people from federal government interference. Which amendment protects people from interference by each state government?
The Fourteenth Amendment o.O
The only Southern state to ratify the Fourteenth Amendment was?
Tennessee was the only Southern state to ratify the 14th amendment.
Was Tennessee the only state to ratify the fourteenth amendment?
Yes
What does the fifth amendment and the fourteenth amendment have in common?
They both offer due process in some state.
Which was the only southern state to ratify the fourteenth amendment?
Tennessee was the only Southern state to ratify the 14th amendment.
Which amendment requires that every state grant its citizens equal protection of the laws?
The 14th amendment prevents states from denying any citizen equal protection under the law. No state may pass a law which would abridge the rights granted US citizens by the Constitution.
Which Amendment forbids the State of Texas from using drowning as a form of punishment?
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What is an important feature of the Fourteenth Amendment?
It protect people from the power of state government
Do the provisions of the Fourteenth Amendment apply to professional sports leagues?
No, the are not state actors
