Amendments to the Constitution

Amendment XIV, 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.

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Debates in Congress

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House, June 13, 1866 (2), ¶ 77
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.
The paragraph gives the words of the first section of the joint resolution, and they appear in Section 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment.
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House, June 13, 1866 (2), ¶ 119
…slni ll 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 In '.vs.
The paragraph gives the first section of the joint resolution as amended by the Senate (with several OCR misreadings); its words "nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the" appear in Section 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment.
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House, May 10, 1866, ¶ 141
It provides that 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.
The paragraph gives the words of the first section of the joint resolution, and they appear in Section 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment.
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House, May 10, 1866, ¶ 176
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 its laws.
The paragraph reads the first section of the joint resolution, and its words appear in Section 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment.
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House, May 10, 1866 (2), ¶ 18
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.
The paragraph gives the words of the first section of the amendment reported by the committee, and they appear in Section 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment.
quoted bySuggested
House, May 10, 1866 (2), ¶ 106
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.
The paragraph gives the joint resolution as read the third time; the words of its first section appear in Section 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment.
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House, May 8, 1866 (2), ¶ 49
XoState shall make orenforccany lawwhicli shall abridge the privileges or immunitiesof 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 t he laws.
The paragraph gives the words of the first section of the joint resolution as read in debate, and these words appear in Section 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment. The section's opening words are run together by OCR.
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House, May 8, 1866 (3), ¶ 125
No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens ot the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property without due process ot law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws?
The paragraph gives the words of the first section of the joint resolution, read as a provision proposed for the Constitution, and they appear in Section 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment ("ot" is an OCR misreading of "of").
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House, May 9, 1866, ¶ 53
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.
The paragraph gives the words of Section 1 of the joint resolution as reported, and they appear in Section 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment.
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House, May 9, 1866 (3), ¶ 75
The word "State" is used in the first section, which says, "nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property without due process of law." That has reference only to the southern States, for there was never any necessity to apply it to the northern States.
The paragraph quotes, in quotation marks, the words of the first section of the joint resolution, and they appear in Section 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment.
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House, May 9, 1866 (4), ¶ 20
The first provides that 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.
The paragraph gives the words of the first section of the proposed article, and they appear in Section 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment.
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House, May 9, 1866 (5), ¶ 7
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 ot life, liberty, or property, without due proe ess oflaw; nor denyto anypersonwithin its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
The paragraph gives the words of Section 1 of the proposed amendment; this run of them appears in Section 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment.
cited bySuggested
House, February 15, 1869, ¶ 40
It also provides that all persons born in the Republic, and also all persons of foreign birth who may become naturalized, shall be citizens of the United States. Now, I answer, first, that if this amendment be passed by the two Houses and is agreed to by three fourths of the Legislatures of the States it will become…
The paragraph says the Constitution "also provides that all persons born in the Republic, and also all persons of foreign birth who may become naturalized, shall be citizens of the United States"; only the first sentence of Section 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment fits.
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House, January 23, 1869, ¶ 78
of th 3 ftrst sectioii is in ttesewoids:* "All persons born or naturalized in -the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof are citiaensiaf theUnitedStates and of the States wherein they reside."
The paragraph quotes, in quotation marks, "the first clause of the first section" of the Fourteenth Amendment ("citiaensiaf theUnitedStates" is an OCR form).
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House, January 23, 1869, ¶ 80
N o State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States."
The paragraph quotes the words of Section 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment introduced as "the inhibition on the States".
cited bySuggested
House, January 23, 1869, ¶ 81
By the first clause citizens of the United States are citizens of the States in which they reside. One of the immunities, then, and privileges of a citizen of the United States is that he shall be a citizen of the State where he resides, and the inhibition…
The paragraph refers to "the first clause" of Section 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment, quoted in the paragraphs before.
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House, January 23, 1869, ¶ 97
"No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridgetbe privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States."
The paragraph quotes, in quotation marks, these words of Section 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment as "the language of the section" ("abridgetbe" is an OCR form).
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House, January 23, 1869, ¶ 98
By the first clause of this section" all persons born or naturalized in the United States are citizens of the United States." They may have been born in Africa, in Denmark, in Ireland; they may be white, they may be black; but by the Constitution they are citizens of the United States,…
The paragraph quotes, from "the first clause of this section" of the Fourteenth Amendment, the words "all persons born or naturalized in the United States".
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House, January 23, 1869, ¶ 115
Eldiudgb.] I say, then, considering the first section of the fourteenth article of the amendments, that that section runs entirely in harmony with the previous provision of the Constitution concerning the rights of citizens.
The paragraph cites "the first section of the fourteenth article of the amendments".
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House, January 23, 1869, ¶ 116
…by the first section of the fourteenth amendment it was intended to prevent the States from determining who should and who should not vote, why, when it provides that 4 no State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States," it did not add, nor make discriminations among the citizens of the State itself in the exercise of the right of suffrage?
The speaker cites "the first section of the fourteenth amendment" and quotes, in quotation marks, its words "no State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States".
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House, January 23, 1869, ¶ 120
I read the first section:
The paragraph refers to "the first section" of the Fourteenth Amendment, which it reads in the next paragraph.
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House, January 23, 1869, ¶ 121
AH 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 re ide No State shall make or i enforce any biw which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States: nor shall any State deprive atly person of…
The paragraph quotes Section 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment, headed "Sec. 1.", which the previous paragraph introduced as "the first section" (with some OCR errors).
cited bySuggested
House, January 23, 1869, ¶ 122
We knew that Kentucky, Maryland, and Delaware were doing what they were inhibited from doing by the first section of the article, and wo said that they should suffer in representation for so doing.
The paragraph cites "the first section of the article" (the Fourteenth Amendment, read in the previous paragraph).
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House, January 23, 1869, ¶ 123
By the fourteenth amendment to the Constitution we have declared that all the black men in Maryland and other States shall be citizens of the United States. Certain State governments have for the present denied those people the right to vote, and yet one of them may be elected President of the United States and another Vice…
The paragraph refers to the declaration of citizenship made "by the fourteenth amendment"; only the citizenship clause of Section 1 fits.
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House, January 23, 1869, ¶ 126
,If the right to vote for certain officers be denied or abridged, then certain political consequences follow; but in the first section there is a distinct declaration that this cannot lawfully be done.
The paragraph refers to "the first section" of the Fourteenth Amendment, set beside the political consequences of the second.
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House, January 27, 1869 (4), ¶ 4
The title of the bill and the text of this section clearly indicate, and the gentleman s argument declares, that this bill rests for support, in part at least, on the first paragraph of the first section of the fourteenth amendment. I read it:
The paragraph cites "the first paragraph of the first section of the fourteenth amendment", which it reads in the next paragraph.
quoted bySuggested
House, January 27, 1869 (4), ¶ 5
"All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subiect to the jurisdiction thereot are citizens of theUnitedStfttes and of the State wherein they reside."
The paragraph quotes, in quotation marks, the first sentence of Section 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment, introduced in the previous paragraph (with OCR errors such as "subiect" and "theUnitedStfttes").
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House, January 27, 1869 (4), ¶ 21
I therefore hold that the first paragraph in question is merely declaratory in a more specific and authoritative form of what was law before.
The paragraph refers to "the first paragraph" of the first section of the Fourteenth Amendment, quoted earlier in the speech.
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House, January 27, 1869 (4), ¶ 23
"No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridsro the privileges orimmunitios of citizens of the United States."
The paragraph quotes, in quotation marks, the clause of Section 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment that "that section declares" ("abridsro" and "orimmunitios" are OCR forms).
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House, January 27, 1869 (4), ¶ 29
The language of the fourteenth amendment seems to have been intended to give Congress the power to enforce the provisions of this section; but the expression "privileges or immunities of citizens ofthe United Slates" appears to be restrictive of the object and intent of the words in the section," privileges and immunities of citizens in the several States."
The paragraph quotes, in quotation marks, the expression "privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States" from "the language of the fourteenth amendment" ("Slates" is an OCR form).
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House, January 27, 1869 (4), ¶ 109
…that citizenship of the United States confers the right of suffrage, then every ex rebel in the South is wrongfully denied that right, and in violation of the Constitution, because they are all citizens under the express and most explicit language of the fourteenth amendment, and any one of them having the required age and period of residence may be elected President, and especially if he is not embraced in the disqualification to hold…
The paragraph refers to the citizenship conferred by "the express and most explicit language of the fourteenth amendment"; only the first sentence of Section 1 fits.
cited bySuggested
House, January 27, 1869 (4), ¶ 116
But the gentleman from Massachusetts Jias discovered that this denial of representation was intended to be "a mere political penalty for doing what the first section declares shall not be done." A penalty against whom?
The paragraph quotes Mr. Boutwell's phrase about what "the first section declares shall not be done", the first section of the Fourteenth Amendment.
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House, January 28, 1869 (3), ¶ 60
By the fourteenth amendment to the Constitution we nave declared that all the black men in Maryland and other States shall bo citizens of the United States. Certain State governments have for the present denied these people the right to vote, and yet one of them may be elected President of the United States and anotherVice President.
The paragraph, a quotation from Mr. Boutwell's speech, refers to the declaration of citizenship made "by the fourteenth amendment"; only the citizenship clause of Section 1 fits.
cited bySuggested
House, January 28, 1869 (3), ¶ 71
…the language of the amendment itself when considered in reference to the peculiar and anomalous condition of the negro race, to which it more specifically, indeed almost exclusively relates, that the first section of the amendment, even if we leave out of view the second, which, making clear the meaning of the first, fully sustains the position which I in common with the Republican convention—and…
The paragraph cites "the first section" of "the fourteenth amendment".
cited bySuggested
House, January 28, 1869 (3), ¶ 77
The first section has that extent no more. States may allow persons to exercise the right of suffrage who are not citizens of the united States; most of the northwestern States have done so; some of them now…
The paragraph refers to "the first section" of the Fourteenth Amendment, which it has been discussing.
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House, January 28, 1869 (3), ¶ 79
…if by the first section of the fourteenth amendment it was intended to prevent the States from determining who should and who should not vote, why, when it provides that 'no State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States,' it did not add, nor makes discriminations among the citizens of the State itself in the exercise ot the right ot suffrage?
The paragraph, the speaker's own question read from the Globe, cites "the first section of the fourteenth amendment" and quotes these words of it in quotation marks.
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House, January 28, 1869 (3), ¶ 83
The right, to vote is not only not secured by the first section, as he assumes, it is not even alluded to; nor, as f have shown, is there any language in it which indicates that was so intended.
The paragraph refers to "the first section" of the Fourteenth Amendment, set against the second section quoted just before.
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House, January 28, 1869 (3), ¶ 103
That defect has been cured by the fourteenth article of amendment, which has now become the fundamental law of the land.
The paragraph says the lack of a "declaration as to what constitutes a citizen" was cured "by the fourteenth article of amendment"; only the first sentence of Section 1 fits.
cited bySuggested
House, January 28, 1869 (3), ¶ 110
The first section of the amendment reads as follows:
The paragraph cites "the first section of the amendment" (the Fourteenth, named in the previous paragraph), which the next paragraph quotes.
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House, January 28, 1869 (3), ¶ 111
"Section 1. Allpersonsborn or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein theyreside. 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 tile laws."
The paragraph quotes Section 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment in full, in quotation marks, headed "Section 1.".
cited bySuggested
House, January 28, 1869 (3), ¶ 113
In my own State to day the first section of this amendment which I have read is a dead letter entirely, except so far as it is enforced in the Federal courts of our country.
The paragraph cites "the first section of this amendment which I have read" (Section 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment, quoted two paragraphs before).
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House, January 28, 1869 (3), ¶ 118
This third section, as well as the first section, of the fourteenth constitutional amendment is systematically defied in my own State, openly and defiantly set at naught, and has been so ever since it was proclaimed.
The paragraph cites "the first section" of "the fourteenth constitutional amendment".
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House, January 28, 1869 (3), ¶ 150
But, sir, when this fourteenth amendment was adopted, which made all these people citizens, and declared that they should he entitled to all the rights and privileges of citizens, I had no longer any doubt as to the constitutional right of the Congress…
The paragraph refers to the provision of "this fourteenth amendment" which "made all these people citizens"; only the first sentence of Section 1 fits.
cited bySuggested
House, January 28, 1869 (3), ¶ 195
The first section of that article is as follows:
The paragraph cites "the first section" of "the so called fourteenth amendment", which the next paragraph quotes.
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House, January 28, 1869 (3), ¶ 196
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 depiiveany 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."
The paragraph quotes Section 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment in full, headed "Sec 1" (with OCR errors such as "depiiveany").
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House, January 28, 1869 (3), ¶ 197
The prohibition against any State making or enforcing laws which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens ot the United States is of no moment until it be shown that some State has proposed or now proposes to do so.
The paragraph refers to "this clause" (Section 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment, quoted just before) and repeats its words on laws "which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States".
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House, January 29, 1869, ¶ 178
By the fourteenth amendment the States are prevented from passing any laws abridging the right of citizens to these privileges and immunities Now, it is said that they are abridged in some States by citizens not being permitted to exercise the right to vote and hold office, and it is proposed to…
The paragraph refers to the provision of "the fourteenth amendment" that prevents the States from passing laws abridging the privileges and immunities of citizens; only Section 1 fits.
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House, August 27, 1962, ¶ 377
Congress may therefore abolish it by statute under the power granted to Congress by the 14th amendment which provides that no State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges and immunities of citizens of the United States.
The paragraph quotes words of Section 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment.
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House, March 23, 1971, ¶ 66
…or the other body to define what is meant by a "citizen." The reason for the silence in these reports is that the proposed amendment rests on prior law, including section 1 of the 14th amendment, for the meaning of citizenship.
The paragraph cites section 1 of the 14th amendment by number.
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Senate, June 4, 1866, ¶ 11
All persons born in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.
The paragraph reads out part of the first section of the joint resolution; these words appear unchanged in Section 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment.
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Senate, June 5, 1866, ¶ 5
The clause of the first proposed amendment, that "no State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States," secures nothing beyond what was intended by the original provision in the Constitution, that 'the citizens of each State shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of citizens…
The paragraph quotes a clause of the first proposed amendment; the words appear unchanged in Section 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment.
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Senate, June 5, 1866, ¶ 8
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 law.
The paragraph gives the words of the rest of the first proposed amendment; they appear in Section 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment.
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Senate, June 8, 1866, ¶ 225
All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are cttizen s of the United States ami of the .State wherein they reside.
The paragraph gives the words of the clause of the first section as Mr. Fessenden would amend it; this run of 12 words appears unchanged in Section 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment.
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Senate, June 8, 1866, ¶ 230
Jio 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 pei on of life, liberty, or property, without due proec s of law, nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction…
The paragraph gives the words of the first article of Mr. Doolittle's substitute; this run of 17 words appears unchanged in Section 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment.
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Senate, June 8, 1866, ¶ 287
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.
The paragraph gives the words of the amendment to the first section read by the Secretary; this run of 27 words appears unchanged in Section 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment.
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Senate, June 8, 1866, ¶ 296
…to a State the right to deprive any person of life, liberty, or property without due process of law, but I think it is quite objectionable to provide that "no State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States," simply because I do not understand what will be the effect of that.
The paragraph gives the words of the first section, which the speaker quotes; this run of 21 words appears unchanged in Section 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment.
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Senate, June 8, 1866, ¶ 300
I move, therefore, to amend the section as it now stands by striking out the words" make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State;" so as to make it read:
The paragraph gives the words of the first section that Mr. Johnson moves to strike out; this run of 22 words appears unchanged in Section 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment.
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Senate, June 8, 1866, ¶ 301
No State shall 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.
The paragraph gives the words of the first section as Mr. Johnson would amend it; this run of 17 words appears unchanged in Section 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment.
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Senate, May 23, 1866, ¶ 4
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.
The paragraph gives the words of section 1 of the joint resolution as read; the whole sentence appears in Section 1 of the amendment.
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Senate, May 23, 1866, ¶ 13
No State shall makeor 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.
The paragraph gives the words of the first section of the joint resolution, which the speaker reads out; they appear in Section 1 of the amendment (the amendment has a comma after "property").
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Senate, May 23, 1866, ¶ 78
No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of persons born in the United States or naturalized by the laws thereof; 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.
The paragraph gives the words of section 1 of Mr. Wade's proposed substitute; the words from "nor shall any State deprive any person" to "the equal protection of the laws" appear in Section 1 of the amendment.
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Senate, May 29, 1866, ¶ 14
All persons born in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof are citizens of the United States and of the States wherein they reside.
The paragraph gives the words Mr. Howard proposes to add to section one; the words "in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof are citizens of the United States and of the" appear in Section 1 of the amendment, which adds commas.
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Senate, May 30, 1866, ¶ 4
The first amendment is to section one, declaring that" all persons born in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the States wherein they reside." I do not propose to say anything on that subject except that the question of citizenship has been so fully discussed in this body as not…
Howard gives the words of his amendment to section one of the joint resolution, and these words appear in Section 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment.
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Senate, May 30, 1866, ¶ 7
All persons born in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the States wherein they reside.
The paragraph gives the words of Howard's amendment to section one as read by the Secretary, and these words appear in Section 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment.
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Senate, May 30, 1866, ¶ 9
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 paragraph gives the words of section one of the joint resolution as amended, and these words appear in Section 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment.
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Senate, May 30, 1866, ¶ 11
All persons born in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, excluding Indians not taxed, are citizens of the United States and of the States wherein they reside.
The paragraph gives the words of the amendment as Doolittle's motion would make it read, and these words appear in Section 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment.
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Senate, May 30, 1866, ¶ 31
The word "State" in the eleventh line is printed "States." It should be in the singular instead of the plural number, so as to read "all persons born in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof are citizens of the United States and of the State" (not States)" wherein they reside." I move that that correction be made.
Howard gives the words of his amendment to section one with the printer's correction he moves, and these words appear in Section 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment.
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Senate, May 30, 1866, ¶ 42
The provision is, that "all persons born in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens." That means" subject to the complete jurisdiction thereof." Now, does the Senator from Wisconsin pretend to say that the Navajoe Indians are subject to the complete jurisdiction of the…
Trumbull quotes the words of the provision before the Senate ("The provision is, that ..."), and these words appear in Section 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment.
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Senate, May 30, 1866, ¶ 82
excluding Indians not taxed, are citizens of the United States, and of the State wherein they reside.
Howard gives the words of section one as Doolittle's motion would make it read, and these words appear in Section 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment.
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Senate, May 30, 1866, ¶ 93
It is that "all persons born in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside."
Howard quotes the words of section one as it stands ("It is that ..."), and these words appear in Section 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment.
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Senate, May 30, 1866, ¶ 134
All persons born in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of tlie United States and of the State wherein they reside.
Williams reads the words of section one of the proposed amendment, and these words appear in Section 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment.
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Senate, May 30, 1866, ¶ 149
All persons born in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, excluding Indians not taxed, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.
The paragraph gives the words of the amendment as Doolittle's motion would make it read, as read by the Secretary, and these words appear in Section 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment.
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Senate, February 5, 1869 (2), ¶ 63
The amendment abolishing slavery has been reenforced by another, known as article XIV, which declares peremptorily, that" no State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges and immunities of citizens of the United States," and again Congress is empowered to enforce this provision.
The paragraph quotes, in quotation marks, what "article XIV ... declares": that no State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges and (for "or") immunities of citizens of the United States.
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Senate, February 6, 1869, ¶ 61
All persons in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction of the Government of the United States are citizens thereof.
The paragraph is one item of the speaker's "summary of [the] provisions" of "the fourteenth article", introduced in the paragraph before; it restates the citizenship clause of Section 1.
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Senate, February 6, 1869, ¶ 62
All persons naturalized in the United States are citizens thereof.
The paragraph is one item of the speaker's summary of the provisions of the fourteenth article; it restates the citizenship clause of Section 1 for naturalized persons.
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Senate, February 6, 1869, ¶ 63
No State can make or enforce any law abridging the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States.
The paragraph is one item of the speaker's summary of the provisions of the fourteenth article; it restates, nearly in its words, the privileges or immunities clause of Section 1.
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Senate, February 6, 1869, ¶ 64
No State can deprive any person of life, liberty, or property without due process of law.
The paragraph is one item of the speaker's summary of the provisions of the fourteenth article; it restates, nearly in its words, the due process clause of Section 1.
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Senate, February 6, 1869, ¶ 65
No State can deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of its laws.
The paragraph is one item of the speaker's summary of the provisions of the fourteenth article; it restates, nearly in its words, the equal protection clause of Section 1.
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Senate, February 8, 1869, ¶ 31
"All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the States -wherein they reside.
The paragraph quotes, in quotation marks, the first sentence of Section 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment, introduced in the previous paragraph as what "the fourteenth amendment ... provides".
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Senate, February 8, 1869, ¶ 32
"No iitato shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges and immunities ot the citizens of the United States 1
The paragraph quotes, in quotation marks, the next clause of Section 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment ("iitato" is an OCR form of "State"; it reads "and" for "or").
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Senate, February 8, 1869 (2), ¶ 48
The first section of the fourteenth amendment declares that—
The paragraph cites "the first section of the fourteenth amendment", which the next paragraphs quote.
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Senate, February 8, 1869 (2), ¶ 49
"All persons born or naturalized in the United States subjectto the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside."
The paragraph quotes, in quotation marks, the first sentence of the section introduced in the previous paragraph as "the first section of the fourteenth amendment".
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Senate, February 8, 1869 (2), ¶ 51
No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge any privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States."
The paragraph quotes the next clause of Section 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment (reading "any" for "the"), continuing the quotation begun two paragraphs before.
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Senate, February 8, 1869 (2), ¶ 492
…than any amendment which did not imply such an existing right, because I am one ot those, and I may as well say it now as ever, who believe that the fourteenth amendment which we have already adopted has undertaken to secure to citizens of the United States all the privileges and immunities that belong to citizens as such, including, of course, and comprehending all belonging to the class.
The paragraph names the provision of "the fourteenth amendment" securing to citizens of the United States their "privileges and immunities"; only Section 1 fits.
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Senate, February 8, 1869 (2), ¶ 501
The question with me is, on .which I wish to get information from the honorable Senator, whether he considers that the first section of the fourteenth article of amendment to the Constitution does now confer upon citizens of the United States the right to vote in the States in which they reside?
The paragraph cites "the first section of the fourteenth article of amendment to the Constitution".
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Senate, February 8, 1869 (2), ¶ 504
…as there left in the range of the rights of citizenship under the Constitution as it stood before the fourteenth article, except exactly that which is covered and comprehended in the broadest of language contained in the fourteenth article, that the privileges and immunities of citizens of the United States shall not be either abridged or denied by the United States or by any State; defining also, what it was possible was open to some question after the Dred Scott decision, who were citizens of the United States.'
The paragraph gives the substance of "the language contained in the fourteenth article" on the privileges and immunities of citizens and on who are citizens; only Section 1 fits.
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Senate, February 8, 1869 (2), ¶ 509
…my friend will allow me, to ask him if the decision of the supreme court of Kentucky, to which he refers, pronounced twenty five years ago, is not reversed by this very clause of the Constitution, which says that all persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof are citizens of the United States and of the States in which they reside.
The paragraph gives the words of "this very clause of the Constitution, which says that all persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof are citizens of the United States", the first sentence of Section 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment.
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Senate, February 8, 1869 (2), ¶ 519
.Turning to the first section of the fourteenth article I find that it provides that the individual shall possess all the rights and privileges of the highest class, and then that all persons born or naturalized in the United…
The paragraph cites "the first section of the fourteenth article".
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Senate, February 8, 1869 (2), ¶ 525
exceedingly erroneous and detrimental view of "the first section of the fourteenth article of amendments to the Constitution.
The paragraph cites "the first section of the fourteenth article of amendments to the Constitution".
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Senate, February 8, 1869 (2), ¶ 526
Let us look at the first sentence of that section:
The paragraph refers to "the first sentence of that section" (the first section of the Fourteenth Amendment), which the next paragraph quotes.
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Senate, February 8, 1869 (2), ¶ 527
"AH porsons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof are oitizensof theUnitedStatesandof the State wherein they reside."
The paragraph quotes, in quotation marks, "the first sentence of that section" of the Fourteenth Amendment introduced in the previous paragraph (with OCR errors).
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Senate, February 8, 1869 (2), ¶ 529
I do not think that the honorable Senator from .Vermont will claim that that sentence of the first section of the fourteenth article confers upon any man the right of suffrage.
The paragraph cites "that sentence of the first section of the fourteenth article", quoted just before.
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Senate, February 8, 1869 (2), ¶ 531
"No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States."
The paragraph quotes, in quotation marks, the next words of Section 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment, introduced as "the next portion of that sentence".
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Senate, February 8, 1869 (2), ¶ 541
If the construction which the Senator from Vermont puts upon this first section of the fourteenth amendment is true, will it not abrogate the educational provision with regard to the right of suffrage in Massachusetts?
The paragraph cites "this first section of the fourteenth amendment".
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Senate, February 8, 1869 (2), ¶ 558
…here: if it is one of the essential privileges of citizenship, as my friend knows that, it is to him and to me, to vote, to exercise political power, then the Constitution says that the privileges which belong to him and me shall not be denied or abridged by any State.
The paragraph gives the substance of what "the Constitution says" about the privileges of citizens not being abridged by any State, the clause of Section 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment under debate.
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Senate, February 8, 1869 (2), ¶ 568
The construction which is now sought to be put upon the first section of this fourteenth article, it seems to me, is plainly and flatly contradicted by what follows in the second section of the same article.
The paragraph cites "the first section of this fourteenth article", which the next paragraphs quote.
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Senate, February 8, 1869 (2), ¶ 569
"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;"
The paragraph quotes, in quotation marks, the first sentence of "the first section" of the Fourteenth Amendment, introduced in the previous paragraph.
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Senate, February 8, 1869 (2), ¶ 571
'No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States;"
The paragraph quotes, in quotation marks, the next words of Section 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment.
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Senate, February 8, 1869 (2), ¶ 577
The occasion of introducing the first section of the fourteenth article of amendment into that amendment grew out of the fact that there was nothing in the whole Constitution to secure absolutely the citizens of the United States in the various States against…
The paragraph cites "the first section of the fourteenth article of amendment".
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Senate, February 8, 1869 (2), ¶ 581
Now, sir, the first section of the fourteenth article, in the first place, makes the declaration that—
The paragraph cites "the first section of the fourteenth article", which the next paragraphs quote.
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Senate, February 8, 1869 (2), ¶ 582
"All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of theUnited States and of the State wherein they reside."
The paragraph quotes, in quotation marks, the first sentence of the section introduced in the previous paragraph as "the first section of the fourteenth article".
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Senate, February 8, 1869 (2), ¶ 584
"No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States."
The paragraph quotes, in quotation marks, "the inhibitory clause" of Section 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment.
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Senate, February 8, 1869 (2), ¶ 690
I would ask the honorable Senator from Massachusetts what is the necessity for that, in view of the language of the first section of the fourteenth article of the amendment to the Constitution, which sayss
The paragraph cites "the first section of the fourteenth article of the amendment to the Constitution", which the next paragraph quotes.
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Senate, February 8, 1869 (2), ¶ 691
Nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property without duo process of law, nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."
The paragraph quotes the last words of "the first section of the fourteenth article", introduced in the previous paragraph ("duo" is an OCR form).
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Senate, February 9, 1869, ¶ 94
The question I asked was whether it was in the power of Congress to naturalize the native born persons of the country whom the Constitution of the United States, as now amended, says are citizens of the United States.
The paragraph refers to the persons whom "the Constitution of the United States, as now amended, says are citizens of the United States"; only the first sentence of Section 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment fits.
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Senate, January 29, 1869, ¶ 78
I answerin the language of the fundamental law, article fourteen of the amendments to the Constitution of the United States, section one:
The paragraph cites "article fourteen of the amendments to the Constitution of the United States, section one", which the next paragraph quotes.
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Senate, January 29, 1869, ¶ 79
"All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, shall be citizens, &c., and no State shall make any law abridging the rights of citizens."
The paragraph quotes, in quotation marks and loosely, Section 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment, introduced in the previous paragraph as "article fourteen ... section one".
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Senate, June 12, 1911, ¶ 852
The fourteenth amendment prohibits a State from denying to any per· son within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws; but this provision does.
The passage the speaker reads from United States v. Cruikshank names "The fourteenth amendment" and gives its words "within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws".
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Senate, June 12, 1911, ¶ 857
When the State has been guilty of no violation of its pro v isions; when it has not made or enforced any law abridging the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; when no one of its departments has deprived · any person of life, liberty, or property without due process of law, or denied to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws; when, on the contrary, the laws of the S t ates, as enacted by its l e gislative, and construed by its judicial, and admini s tered by its…
The passage the speaker reads (from the Civil Rights Cases) gives the words of the amendment's first section: "the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States", "any person of life, liberty, or property without due process of law", "to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws".
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Senate, February 2, 1960, ¶ 125
To make payment of poll taxes a · prerequisite of voting is not to deny any privilege or immunity protected by the 14th amendment.
The quoted decision names the privileges or immunities protected by the 14th amendment, which are in its first section.
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Senate, February 2, 1960, ¶ 134
The decisions generally hold that a State statute which imposes a reasonable poll tax as a condition of the right to vote does not abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States which are protected by the 14th amendment.
The quoted decision names the privileges or immunities protected by the 14th amendment, which are in its first section.
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Senate, February 2, 1960 (2), ¶ 14
…lower court had stated that the decisions generally held that a State statute which imposes a reasonable poll tax as a condition of the right of vote does not abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States protected by the 14th amendment.
The paragraph names the privileges or immunities protected by the 14th amendment, which are in its first section.
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Senate, February 2, 1960 (2), ¶ 16
• • • · the decisions generally hold that a St ate statute which imposes a reasonable poll tax as a condition of the right to vote does not abridge the privileges or immunities of cit iz ens of the United States which are protected by the 14th amendment.
The quoted decision names the privileges or immunities protected by the 14th amendment, which are in its first section.
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Senate, February 2, 1960 (2), ¶ 20
To make payment of poll taxes a prerequisite of voting is not to deny any privilege or immunity protected by the 14th amendment.
The quoted decision names the privileges or immunities protected by the 14th amendment, which are in its first section.
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Senate, February 2, 1960 (2), ¶ 67
-To make payment of poll taxes a prerequisite to voting is not to deny any privilege or immunity protected by the 14th amendment .
The quoted decision names the privileges or immunities protected by the 14th amendment, which are in its first section.
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Senate, February 2, 1960 (2), ¶ 69
To make payment of poll taxes a prerequi Kefauver site of voting is not to deny any privilege or immunity protected by the 14th amendment.
The quoted decision names the privileges or immunities protected by the 14th amendment, which are in its first section.
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Senate, February 2, 1960 (3), ¶ 30
There is also the argument that the poll tax works to the particular disadvantage of Negroes, and therefore violates the equal protection clause and the 15 t h amendment.
The paragraph names the equal protection clause, which is in Section 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment.
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Senate, February 2, 1960 (3), ¶ 251
Section 1 of the 14th amendment to the Constitution of the United States reads as follows:
The printed report cites section 1 of the 14th amendment and introduces its text, quoted in the next paragraph.
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Senate, February 2, 1960 (3), ¶ 252
"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."
The printed report quotes Section 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment in full, introduced in the preceding paragraph.
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Senate, February 2, 1960 (3), ¶ 254
Section 1 of the 14th amendment to the Constitution is positive in its terms and says that no State shall make or enforce any law which is an abridgment of the privileges and immunities of the citizens of the United States.
The printed report cites section 1 of the 14th amendment and names its privileges and immunities clause.
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Senate, February 2, 1960 (3), ¶ 255
Section 1 of the 14th amendment to the Constitution says that this shall not be done and these laws therefore come in direct conflict with section 1 of the 14th amendment.
The printed report cites section 1 of the 14th amendment by number.
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Senate, February 2, 1960 (3), ¶ 258
It is quite evident that all these poll-tax laws are in direct violation of section 1 of the 14th amendment to the Constitution as well as being in violation o!
The printed report cites section 1 of the 14th amendment by number.
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Senate, January 28, 1960 (4), ¶ 84
Likewise, from time to time efforts are made to invalidate restrictions and discriminations in voting requirements on the ground that they violate the privileges and immunities, or equal protection, provisions of the 14th amendment.
The paragraph cites the privileges and immunities and equal protection provisions of the 14th amendment, which are in its first section.
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Senate, January 28, 1960 (4), ¶ 292
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.
The paragraph quotes Section 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment in full, introduced in the preceding paragraph.
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Senate, January 28, 1960 (4), ¶ 294
542, 554-555), decided in 1875, it was said: The 14th amendment prohibits a State from denying to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws; but this provision does not, any more than the one which precedes it, and which we have just considered, add anything to the rights which one citizen has under…
The quoted decision names the 14th amendment and gives the words of its equal protection clause, in Section 1.
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Senate, January 28, 1960 (4), ¶ 295
The court held that the classification of the law, not being an invalid discrimination, did not violate the equal protection clause of the 14th amendment.
The paragraph cites the equal protection clause and the privileges and immunities clause of the 14th amendment, which are in its first section.
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Senate, January 28, 1960 (4), ¶ 319
The decisions generally hold that a State statute which imposes a reasonable poll tax as a condition of the right to vote does not abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States which are protected by the 14th amendment.
The quoted decision names the privileges or immunities of citizens protected by the 14th amendment, which are in its first section.
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Senate, January 29, 1960 (3), ¶ 151
did not violate the equal protection clause of the 14th amendment.
The paragraph cites the equal protection clause and the privileges and immunities clause of the 14th amendment, which are in its first section.
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Senate, January 29, 1960 (3), ¶ 152
To make payment of poll taxes a prerequisite of voting is not to deny any privilege or immunity protected by the 14th amendment.
The quoted decision names the privileges and immunities protected by the 14th amendment, which are in its first section.
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Senate, January 29, 1960 (3), ¶ 153
2d 235, 237), as follows: The decisions generally hold that a State statute which imposes a reasonable poll tax as a condition of the right to vote does not abridge the privileges . or immunities of citizens of the United States which are protected by the 14th amendment.
The quoted opinion names the privileges or immunities of citizens protected by the 14th amendment, which are in its first section.
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Senate, January 29, 1960 (3), ¶ 154
The contention of the appellant, Pirtle, was that article IV, section 1, of the Constitution of Tennessee, and section 2027 of the Tennessee Code, violated - the "privileges and immunities" claU.Se of the 14th amendment to the Federal Constitution.
The paragraph cites the privileges and immunities clause of the 14th amendment, which is in its first section.
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Senate, January 29, 1960 (3), ¶ 156
He urges that the quoted provision of article IV, section 1 of the Constitution of Tennessee and section 2027 of the code violates the "privilege and immunities" clause of the 14th amendment; that his right tp vote for a Member of Congress is not taxable, regardless of whether the amount of the tax imposed is trifling or substantial.
The quoted opinion cites the privileges and immunities clause of the 14th amendment, which is in its first section.
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Senate, January 29, 1960 (3), ¶ 157
To make payment of poll taxes a prerequisite of voting is not to deny any privilege or immunity protected by the 14th amendment.
The quoted decision names the privileges and immunities protected by the 14th amendment, which are in its first section.
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Senate, January 29, 1960 (3), ¶ 425
Bingham, I believe, is credited with being the actual draftsman or author · of the first section of the 14th amendment.
The paragraph cites the first section of the 14th amendment.
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Senate, March 19, 1962, ¶ 399
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 any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
The paragraph quotes Section 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment.
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Senate, March 21, 1962 (2), ¶ 184
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.
The paragraph quotes Section 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment.
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Senate, March 22, 1962, ¶ 15
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.
The paragraph quotes Section 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment.
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Senate, March 24, 1962 (2), ¶ 335
All persons born and naturalized 1n the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.
The paragraph quotes Section 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment.
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Senate, March 24, 1962 (2), ¶ 341
The language is: "No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States."
The paragraph quotes Section 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment.
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Senate, March 24, 1962 (2), ¶ 363
Was it the purpose of the 14th amendment, by the simple declaration that no State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges and immunities of the citizens of the United States to transfer the security and protection of rights which we have mentioned to the Federal Government?
The paragraph quotes words of Section 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment.
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Senate, March 24, 1962 (2), ¶ 373
The 14th amendment prohibits a State from depriving any person of life, liberty, or property without due process of law, or from denying to any person equal protection of the law, but this provision does not add anything to the rights of one citizen as against another.
The paragraph quotes words of Section 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment.
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Senate, March 10, 1971 (3), ¶ 74
In deciding what was appropriate legislation to enforce the equal protection clause, the Court said:
The quoted decision names the equal protection clause, which is in Section 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment.
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Senate, March 9, 1971, ¶ 151
Morgan to •policing state restrictions on ethnic minorities' is to ignore the fact that the equal protection clause, which Section 5 gives Congress the power to enforce, condemns, in the words of the Supreme Court, 'any unjustified discrimination in determining who may participate in political affairs or the selection of public officials.' Indeed, Section 5 is…
The quoted passage names the equal protection clause, which is in Section 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment.

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Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857)60 U.S. 393, decided March 18, 1857
The Constitution Annotated's essays on this provision cite the case on 2 pages.
Source: Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation (2022 ed.), essays Amdt14.S1.1, Amdt14.S1.1.1, Amdt14.S1.6.2.1, pp. 2065, 2147.
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Slaughter-House Cases (1873)83 U.S. 36, decided April 14, 1873
The Constitution Annotated's essays on this provision cite the case on 9 pages.
Source: Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation (2022 ed.), essays Amdt14.S1.2, Amdt14.S1.2.1, Amdt14.S1.2.2, Amdt14.S1.4.2, Amdt14.S1.6.2.1, Amdt14.S1.6.2.2, Amdt14.S1.8.1.2, Amdt14.S1.8.1.8, Amdt14.S1.8.2, Amdt14.S1.8.2.1, Amdt14.S1.8.8.4, Amdt14.S1.8.9, Amdt14.S1.8.9.1, pp. 2067, 2068, 2074, 2147, 2149, 2150, 2211, 2220, 2284.
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United States v. Cruikshank (1876)92 U.S. 542, decided March 27, 1876
The Constitution Annotated's essays on this provision cite the case on 2 pages.
Source: Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation (2022 ed.), essays Amdt14.S1.2.2, Amdt14.S1.4.2, pp. 2069, 2074.
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Pennoyer v. Neff (1878)95 U.S. 714, decided January 21, 1878
The Constitution Annotated's essays on this provision cite the case on 5 pages.
Source: Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation (2022 ed.), essays Amdt14.S1.7.1.1, Amdt14.S1.7.1.2, Amdt14.S1.7.1.3, Amdt14.S1.7.1.4, pp. 2181, 2183, 2184, 2185, 2188.
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Yick Wo v. Hopkins (1886)118 U.S. 356, decided May 10, 1886
The Constitution Annotated's essays on this provision cite the case on 6 pages.
Source: Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation (2022 ed.), essays Amdt14.S1.3, Amdt14.S1.8.1.2, Amdt14.S1.8.4.2, Amdt14.S1.8.5, Amdt14.S1.8.7.2, Amdt14.S1.8.9.2, Amdt14.S1.8.9.3, pp. 2071, 2211, 2244, 2265, 2266, 2285.
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Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)163 U.S. 537, decided May 18, 1896
The Constitution Annotated's essays on this provision cite the case on 3 pages.
Source: Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation (2022 ed.), essays Amdt14.S1.8.1.8, Amdt14.S1.8.2, Amdt14.S1.8.2.1, Amdt14.S1.8.3.3, Amdt14.S1.8.3.4, pp. 2220, 2221, 2233.
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Maxwell v. Dow (1900)176 U.S. 581, decided February 26, 1900
The Constitution Annotated's essays on this provision cite the case on 2 pages.
Source: Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation (2022 ed.), essays Amdt14.S1.2.2, Amdt14.S1.3, Amdt14.S1.5.4.7, pp. 2070, 2104.
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Lochner v. New York (1905)198 U.S. 45, decided April 17, 1905
The Constitution Annotated's essays on this provision cite the case on 2 pages.
Source: Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation (2022 ed.), essays Amdt14.S1.6.2.2, pp. 2151, 2152.
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Twining v. New Jersey (1908)211 U.S. 78, decided November 9, 1908
The Constitution Annotated's essays on this provision cite the case on 5 pages.
Source: Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation (2022 ed.), essays Amdt14.S1.2.1, Amdt14.S1.2.2, Amdt14.S1.4.2, Amdt14.S1.5.1, Amdt14.S1.5.4.4, Amdt14.S1.5.5.1, pp. 2068, 2075, 2080, 2095, 2110.
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Powell v. Alabama (1932)287 U.S. 45, decided November 7, 1932
The Constitution Annotated's essays on this provision cite the case on 4 pages.
Source: Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation (2022 ed.), essays Amdt14.S1.4.2, Amdt14.S1.4.3, pp. 2075, 2076, 2077, 2078.
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Breedlove v. Suttles (1937)302 U.S. 277, decided December 6, 1937
The Constitution Annotated's essays on this provision cite the case on 2 pages.
Source: Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation (2022 ed.), essays Amdt14.S1.2.2, Amdt14.S1.3, Amdt14.S1.8.6.2, pp. 2070, 2253.
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Palko v. Connecticut (1937)302 U.S. 319, decided December 6, 1937
The Constitution Annotated's essays on this provision cite the case on 5 pages.
Source: Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation (2022 ed.), essays Amdt14.S1.2.2, Amdt14.S1.3, Amdt14.S1.4.2, Amdt14.S1.4.3, Amdt14.S1.5.5.1, pp. 2070, 2074, 2075, 2076, 2110.
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Hague v. Committee for Industrial Organization (1939)307 U.S. 496, decided June 5, 1939
The Constitution Annotated's essays on this provision cite the case on 2 pages.
Source: Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation (2022 ed.), essays Amdt14.S1.2.2, Amdt14.S1.4.3, pp. 2069, 2077.
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Cantwell v. Connecticut (1940)310 U.S. 296, decided May 20, 1940
The Constitution Annotated's essays on this provision cite the case on 2 pages.
Source: Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation (2022 ed.), essays Amdt14.S1.4.2, Amdt14.S1.4.3, pp. 2076, 2077.
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West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette (1943)319 U.S. 624, decided June 14, 1943
The Constitution Annotated's essays on this provision cite the case on 2 pages.
Source: Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation (2022 ed.), essays Amdt14.S1.3, Amdt14.S1.4.2, Amdt14.S1.4.3, pp. 2071, 2076.
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Colegrove v. Green (1946)328 U.S. 549, decided June 10, 1946
The Constitution Annotated's essays on this provision cite the case on 2 pages.
Source: Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation (2022 ed.), essays Amdt14.S1.8.6.2, Amdt14.S1.8.6.3, Amdt14.S1.8.6.4, pp. 2254, 2256.
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Adamson v. California (1947)332 U.S. 46, decided June 23, 1947
The Constitution Annotated's essays on this provision cite the case on 3 pages.
Source: Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation (2022 ed.), essays Amdt14.S1.4.2, Amdt14.S1.4.3, pp. 2075, 2076, 2078.
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Brown v. Board of Education (1954)347 U.S. 483, decided May 17, 1954
The Constitution Annotated's essays on this provision cite the case on 5 pages.
Source: Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation (2022 ed.), essays Amdt14.S1.8.1.2, Amdt14.S1.8.2.1, Amdt14.S1.8.2.2, Amdt14.S1.8.3, Amdt14.S1.8.3.1, Amdt14.S1.8.3.3, Amdt14.S1.8.3.4, pp. 2211, 2221, 2222, 2231, 2233.
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Cooper v. Aaron (1958)358 U.S. 1, decided September 12, 1958
The Constitution Annotated's essays on this provision cite the case on 2 pages.
Source: Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation (2022 ed.), essays Amdt14.S1.8.2.1, Amdt14.S1.8.2.2, pp. 2222, 2223.
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Baker v. Carr (1962)369 U.S. 186, decided March 26, 1962
The Constitution Annotated's essays on this provision cite the case on 2 pages.
Source: Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation (2022 ed.), essays Amdt14.S1.8.6.2, Amdt14.S1.8.6.3, Amdt14.S1.8.6.4, pp. 2254, 2256.
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Wesberry v. Sanders (1964)376 U.S. 1, decided February 17, 1964
The Constitution Annotated's essays on this provision cite the case on 2 pages.
Source: Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation (2022 ed.), essays Amdt14.S1.8.6, Amdt14.S1.8.6.1, Amdt14.S1.8.6.3, Amdt14.S1.8.6.4, pp. 2249, 2256.
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Malloy v. Hogan (1964)378 U.S. 1, decided June 15, 1964
The Constitution Annotated's essays on this provision cite the case on 4 pages.
Source: Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation (2022 ed.), essays Amdt14.S1.4.2, Amdt14.S1.4.3, pp. 2074, 2076, 2077, 2078.
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Griswold v. Connecticut (1965)381 U.S. 479, decided June 7, 1965
The Constitution Annotated's essays on this provision cite the case on 6 pages.
Source: Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation (2022 ed.), essays Amdt14.S1.3, Amdt14.S1.4.3, Amdt14.S1.6.3, Amdt14.S1.6.3.1, Amdt14.S1.6.3.3, Amdt14.S1.6.3.5, Amdt14.S1.6.3.6, pp. 2071, 2078, 2155, 2159, 2163, 2165.
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Harper v. Virginia Board of Elections (1966)383 U.S. 663, decided March 24, 1966
The Constitution Annotated's essays on this provision cite the case on 4 pages.
Source: Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation (2022 ed.), essays Amdt14.S1.8.12.5, Amdt14.S1.8.13, Amdt14.S1.8.13.1, Amdt14.S1.8.6.1, Amdt14.S1.8.6.2, Amdt14.S1.8.6.4, Amdt14.S1.8.6.5, pp. 2251, 2253, 2258, 2306.
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Afroyim v. Rusk (1967)387 U.S. 253, decided May 29, 1967
The Constitution Annotated's essays on this provision cite the case on 2 pages.
Source: Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation (2022 ed.), essays Amdt14.S1.1.2, Amdt14.S1.1.3, Amdt14.S1.2, Amdt14.S1.2.1, pp. 2066, 2067.
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Duncan v. Louisiana (1968)391 U.S. 145, decided May 20, 1968
The Constitution Annotated's essays on this provision cite the case on 4 pages.
Source: Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation (2022 ed.), essays Amdt14.S1.4.3, Amdt14.S1.5.4.7, Amdt14.S1.5.5.2, pp. 2077, 2078, 2104, 2111.
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Jones v. Alfred H. Mayer Co. (1968)392 U.S. 409, decided June 17, 1968
The Constitution Annotated's essays on this provision cite the case on 2 pages.
Source: Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation (2022 ed.), essays Amdt14.S1.8.1.2, Amdt14.S1.8.3.3, Amdt14.S1.8.3.4, pp. 2211, 2233.
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Shapiro v. Thompson (1969)394 U.S. 618, decided April 21, 1969
The Constitution Annotated's essays on this provision cite the case on 5 pages.
Source: Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation (2022 ed.), essays Amdt14.S1.2.2, Amdt14.S1.8.12.5, Amdt14.S1.8.13, Amdt14.S1.8.13.1, Amdt14.S1.8.13.3, Amdt14.S1.8.7, Amdt14.S1.8.7.1, pp. 2069, 2264, 2306, 2307, 2309.
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Benton v. Maryland (1969)395 U.S. 784, decided June 23, 1969
The Constitution Annotated's essays on this provision cite the case on 2 pages.
Source: Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation (2022 ed.), essays Amdt14.S1.4.2, Amdt14.S1.4.3, pp. 2076, 2077.
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Oregon v. Mitchell (1970)400 U.S. 112, decided December 21, 1970
The Constitution Annotated's essays on this provision cite the case on 2 pages.
Source: Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation (2022 ed.), essays Amdt14.S1.2.2, Amdt14.S1.8.13.3, pp. 2069, 2309.
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Dunn v. Blumstein (1972)405 U.S. 330, decided March 21, 1972
The Constitution Annotated's essays on this provision cite the case on 7 pages.
Source: Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation (2022 ed.), essays Amdt14.S1.8.12.5, Amdt14.S1.8.13, Amdt14.S1.8.13.1, Amdt14.S1.8.13.3, Amdt14.S1.8.6.1, Amdt14.S1.8.6.2, Amdt14.S1.8.6.7, pp. 2251, 2252, 2263, 2306, 2307, 2309, 2310.
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Board of Regents v. Roth (1972)408 U.S. 564, decided June 29, 1972
The Constitution Annotated's essays on this provision cite the case on 7 pages.
Source: Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation (2022 ed.), essays Amdt14.S1.5, Amdt14.S1.5.1, Amdt14.S1.5.3, Amdt14.S1.5.4.2, Amdt14.S1.5.4.3, pp. 2079, 2080, 2083, 2085, 2086, 2093, 2094.
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Roe v. Wade (1973)410 U.S. 113, decided January 22, 1973
The Constitution Annotated's essays on this provision cite the case on 5 pages.
Source: Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation (2022 ed.), essays Amdt14.S1.6.3, Amdt14.S1.6.3.1, Amdt14.S1.6.3.3, Amdt14.S1.6.3.6, Amdt14.S1.6.4, Amdt14.S1.6.4.1, pp. 2155, 2159, 2166, 2167, 2168.
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Buckley v. Valeo (1976)424 U.S. 1, decided January 30, 1976
The Constitution Annotated's essays on this provision cite the case on 2 pages.
Source: Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation (2022 ed.), essays Amdt14.S1.4.3, Amdt14.S1.5.3, pp. 2078, 2085.
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Mathews v. Eldridge (1976)424 U.S. 319, decided February 24, 1976
The Constitution Annotated's essays on this provision cite the case on 6 pages.
Source: Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation (2022 ed.), essays Amdt14.S1.5.1, Amdt14.S1.5.3, Amdt14.S1.5.4.2, Amdt14.S1.5.4.4, Amdt14.S1.5.4.6, Amdt14.S1.5.4.9, pp. 2080, 2085, 2090, 2095, 2101, 2108.
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Shaffer v. Heitner (1977)433 U.S. 186, decided June 24, 1977
The Constitution Annotated's essays on this provision cite the case on 7 pages.
Source: Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation (2022 ed.), essays Amdt14.S1.7.1.1, Amdt14.S1.7.1.2, Amdt14.S1.7.1.3, Amdt14.S1.7.1.4, pp. 2181, 2183, 2184, 2185, 2186, 2188, 2193.
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Logan v. Zimmerman Brush Co. (1982)455 U.S. 422, decided February 24, 1982
The Constitution Annotated's essays on this provision cite the case on 7 pages.
Source: Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation (2022 ed.), essays Amdt14.S1.5.3, Amdt14.S1.5.4, Amdt14.S1.5.4.1, Amdt14.S1.5.4.2, Amdt14.S1.5.4.4, Amdt14.S1.5.4.7, Amdt14.S1.5.4.8, pp. 2085, 2087, 2092, 2093, 2095, 2096, 2106.
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Davis v. Bandemer (1986)478 U.S. 109, decided June 30, 1986
The Constitution Annotated's essays on this provision cite the case on 2 pages.
Source: Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation (2022 ed.), essays Amdt14.S1.8.6.1, Amdt14.S1.8.6.3, pp. 2250, 2255.
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Bowers v. Hardwick (1986)478 U.S. 186, decided June 30, 1986
The Constitution Annotated's essays on this provision cite the case on 3 pages.
Source: Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation (2022 ed.), essays Amdt14.S1.6.3, Amdt14.S1.6.3.1, Amdt14.S1.6.3.6, pp. 2155, 2156, 2166.
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Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey (1992)505 U.S. 833, decided June 29, 1992
The Constitution Annotated's essays on this provision cite the case on 2 pages.
Source: Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation (2022 ed.), essays Amdt14.S1.6.4.1, pp. 2168, 2169.
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Lawrence v. Texas (2003)539 U.S. 558, decided June 26, 2003
The Constitution Annotated's essays on this provision cite the case on 5 pages.
Source: Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation (2022 ed.), essays Amdt14.S1.6.3.1, Amdt14.S1.6.3.2, Amdt14.S1.6.3.3, Amdt14.S1.6.3.6, Amdt14.S1.6.4, Amdt14.S1.6.4.1, pp. 2156, 2157, 2159, 2166, 2167.
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McDonald v. City of Chicago (2010)561 U.S. 742, decided June 28, 2010
The Constitution Annotated's essays on this provision cite the case on 3 pages.
Source: Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation (2022 ed.), essays Amdt14.S1.3, Amdt14.S1.4.3, pp. 2071, 2077, 2078.
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United States v. Windsor (2013)570 U.S. 744, decided June 26, 2013
The Constitution Annotated's essays on this provision cite the case on 2 pages.
Source: Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation (2022 ed.), essays Amdt14.S1.8.11, pp. 2297, 2298.
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Obergefell v. Hodges (2015)576 U.S. 644, decided June 26, 2015
The Constitution Annotated's essays on this provision cite the case on 5 pages.
Source: Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation (2022 ed.), essays Amdt14.S1.6.3.1, Amdt14.S1.6.3.5, Amdt14.S1.6.3.6, Amdt14.S1.8.11, Amdt14.S1.8.12, Amdt14.S1.8.12.1, pp. 2156, 2163, 2164, 2298, 2299.
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Rucho v. Common Cause (2019)588 U.S. 684, decided June 27, 2019
The Constitution Annotated's essays on this provision cite the case on 2 pages.
Source: Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation (2022 ed.), essays Amdt14.S1.8.6.1, Amdt14.S1.8.6.3, Amdt14.S1.8.6.4, pp. 2250, 2256.
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Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization (2022)597 U.S. 215, decided June 24, 2022
The Constitution Annotated's essays on this provision cite the case on 10 pages.
Source: Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation (2022 ed.), essays Amdt14.S1.6.2.1, Amdt14.S1.6.2.2, Amdt14.S1.6.2.3, Amdt14.S1.6.3, Amdt14.S1.6.3.1, Amdt14.S1.6.3.5, Amdt14.S1.6.4, Amdt14.S1.6.4.1, Amdt14.S1.6.4.3, Amdt14.S1.6.5, Amdt14.S1.6.5.1, Amdt14.S1.6.5.2, pp. 2149, 2150, 2153, 2155, 2163, 2167, 2169, 2173, 2174, 2176.

On Amendment XIV as a whole

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United States v. Classic (1941)313 U.S. 299, decided May 26, 1941
Source: Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation (2022 ed.), essays Amdt14.2, pp. 2055, 2056.
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Jackson v. Metropolitan Edison Co. (1974)419 U.S. 345, decided December 23, 1974
Source: Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation (2022 ed.), essays Amdt14.1, Amdt14.2, pp. 2053, 2059, 2060, 2061, 2063.
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Blum v. Yaretsky (1982)457 U.S. 991, decided June 25, 1982
Source: Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation (2022 ed.), essays Amdt14.1, Amdt14.2, pp. 2053, 2060, 2061, 2063, 2064.

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