I think that this summary very accurately sums the Fourteenth Amendment and its function in a court of law. One point that I would like to expand on is the Fourteenth Amendments suffrage provisions. These provisions did not expand to of groups of politicized women such as Susan B. Anthony one of the founders of the American Equal Rights Association. The Fourteenth Amendment punished states that excluded voters on the basis of race not sex. This amendment was a step forward for all black males but it was a step back for all American women who still were not allowed to vote. It would take half a century and the Nineteenth Amendment for women to finally have the right to
