ensured the civil rights of African Americans
They claimed that the Fourteenth Amendment did not apply to the South because the territory was no longer part of the United States.
The Equal Protection Clause, part of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, provides that "no state shall ... deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws".
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The Amendment was added as part of the Reconstruction Amendments. The citizenship clause provided African American's the rights and freedoms of citizens.
The Confederate states had to ratify the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution before being readmitted to the Union as part of the Reconstruction Acts of 1867. These acts established the process for Southern states to rejoin the Union, requiring them to create new state constitutions, ensure civil rights for freedmen, and ratify the Fourteenth Amendment, which granted citizenship and equal protection under the law to all persons born or naturalized in the U.S.
They claimed that the Fourteenth Amendment did not apply to the South because the territory was no longer part of the United States.
the equal protection clause
The Equal Protection Clause, part of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, provides that "no state shall ... deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws".
the enforcement clause
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Equal protection .
Fourteenth Amendment
The Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is one of the amendments that was enacted after the Civil War as part of the Reconstruction Amendments, along with the Thirteenth and Fifteenth Amendments. It was adopted on July 9, 1868.
The Amendment was added as part of the Reconstruction Amendments. The citizenship clause provided African American's the rights and freedoms of citizens.
to extend rights of state and local government.
the thirteenth amendment freed all the slaves, the fourteenth amendment recognized all black and white men as citizens, and the fifteenth amendment gave ALL MEN the right to vote (women didn't get the right to vote until the nineteenth amendment) *In 1865, the Thirteenth Amendment abolished slavery. The Thirteenth Amendment was followed by the 14th Amendment in 1866, which defined for the first time the definition of American citizenship. The Fifteenth Amendment passed by Congress in 1870 stated that no part of the federal government was to discriminate any citizen on account of "race, color, or previous condition of servitude."
Section 1 of the 14th Amendment contains the "Citizenship Clause". It's one of three Amendments passed soon after the Civil War.