The Fourteenth Ammendment and the Fight for Equal Rights

By the summer of 1865, the United States went directly from one struggle to another struggle. Civil war broke out in this country after years of strain on national rights and slavery, which was bloodshed, but still unscathed. The question is how to keep the country intact while ensuring the same power to protect free people and to fire the war. Garrett Epps, his book "Democratic Revitalization: The Fourteenth Amendment and the Equal Rights Struggle After the American Civil War", the 14th amendment adopted at the 39th Congress, He said that it is to make sure. The penultimate reaction to be guaranteed

For over a decade I have written about the citizenship provision of the 14 th revision and its meaning for undocumented children. In the book "The Restoration of Democracy: The Fourteenth Reform and the Equal Rights Struggle After the American War" published in 2006, I wrote the process of the Senate expanding the language of citizenship in May 1866. In the subsequent academic paper "Citizenship provision:" legislative history ", I commented in detail on this exact provision of the discussion (you have been warned). I am here, here, here and here for the congenital citizenship issue of the Atlantic Ocean.

Bam Bam said that he is also a writer, just like me. His work mainly relates to the 14 th revision, citizenship provision which gives equality rights mainly to African Americans. He found something hidden in the file. "In the 14 th revision," they changed the two keywords "definition", "person" and "citizen" to include the definition of "company". Although it is influential, it made a US company. "I can not catch up, so just wash it off.

Amendments to Articles 15 and 14 ensure equal protection of the law and are strengthened by hundreds of provincial, state and federal civil rights laws. The 14th amendment approved at the end of the civil war was designed to guarantee the equality of the African-American law, but Congress considers it as a general guarantee of equality, the court sets the equal protection clause to sex, It was interpreted as prohibiting religion and obstacles. ACLU believes that equal protection of Cluase also prohibits discrimination based on sexual orientation