Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution

African American were fighting for their rights as freed people. The Civil Rights Acts portrays how much the government did little to none for African American throughout the United States, and how the Civil Rights act affected people. During the year 1866 congress passed the civil rights act. This act defined United States citizenship for the first time and affirmed that all male citizen was equally protected…

During the post-American Civil War era, Reconstruction in the southern United States became an enormous priority. The key protocols of the Reconstruction process involved a focus on improving civil rights. The addition of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution on July 9, 1968, gave all citizens born on American soil equal protection of their unalienable rights without any regards to their race. Before the fighting had split the country into two, “southerners and their…

citizens, three amendments were added to the constitution to ensure they were treated fairly. They are often refered to as the “Civil War amendments”. The fourteenth amendment was one of those amendments. Passed in 1868 following the Civil War, the amendment has helped African-American achieve equality in our country. The amendment says that anyone that is a natural born citizen has equal rights and opportunities in our country. There are also many different clauses in the amendment to specify…

The Constitution does not explicitly state a right to privacy; However during the 1965 Griswold vs. Connecticut case the right of privacy was brought about in discussion when trying to decide the ruling of the case. This case involved Doctor Griswold providing ways of avoiding conception to a married couple. In Connecticut at this time it was illegal to use any certain drugs or instruments to prevent conception. If one was found guilty of using any drugs or instruments to stop conception than…

a Supreme Court case from 1816 that challenged appellate jurisdiction over state court decisions, specifically, the ability of the Supreme Court to hear and decide state cases where state court’s decided cases based on federal law. A British loyalist, Lord Fairfax, owned land in Virginia during the Revolutionary War when Virginia seized the land and gave a tract of it to David Hunter. Following the war, the United States entered into a treaty with Great Britain guaranteeing protection of lands…

“judicial restraint approach” and “activist approach.” In judicial restraint approach, judges are believed to be able to decide cases only on the basis of the language of the laws and the Constitution. However, when looking at the activist approach, judges are able to recognize the principles of the laws or the Constitution and use them in response to circumstances of moral or…

back to normal. Or does it? 48 out of 50 states in America do not allow prisoners to vote and 11 out of 50 take away their voting rights completely. (felonvoting.procon.org) Everybody makes mistakes and people do change. America is supposedly the land of the free, but our government is definitely doing some unjust things like not allowing prisoners to vote. As a matter of fact, there are an estimated 2.4 million prisoners behind bars in the United States alone. (economist.com) These are all for…

creator of the constitution, James Madison, believe that “all men are evil,” so there must be a system to control the temptation that desires more power. The population of a country creates a government by freely…

rejected them. In 1963, the Emancipation Proclamation granted African Americans freedom from slavery inside territories rebelling against the federal government and the with the enactment of the Thirteenth Amendment after the Civil War all African American slaves throughout the United States had new found freedom. The nation was ill-prepared to deal with the question of citizenship and the rights of the newly freed slaves. After the Civil War came…

The 5th amendment gives the right to due process. These rights gives a fair legality and cannot be from their life unless trailed in court fairly. The due of process is a legal requirement that the states must respect all legal rights that are owed to a person. It has been often interpreted as limiting the laws and legal proceedings so the judge instead of legislators can promise fundamental fairness, justice and liberty fairness to the trial. Due of process balances the power of the law of…