what does the 14th amendment mean and how can it affect you as a student?

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Amendment 14th

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.
Section 2. Representatives shall be apportioned among the several states according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each state, excluding Indians not taxed. But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the executive and judicial officers of a state, or the members of the legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such state, being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion, or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such state.
Section 3. No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any state, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any state legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any state, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.
Section 4. The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned. But neither the United States nor any state shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or any claim for the loss or emancipation of any slave; but all such debts, obligations and claims shall be held illegal and void.
Section 5. The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.

i know what the amendment is so please can anybody explain it to me what it means and it what can it affect a person?

Answer 1

Section 1, whatever state among the united states you are born in, you are as well naturalised to citizenship in that state, not only the united states. The states can not make any legislation to arbitrarily infringe upon the rights and privileges of the citizens of the United States nor will it violate or infringe upon the people's rights of life, liberty or property without the proper reason and proper process of law to do so, nor will the states dispose their people to suffer an unequal protection of these laws, meaning everyone has an equal protection to the rights to which this section entitles them.
Section 2. The number of representatives for the house of representatives will be determined for each state by the populace of this state, not counting Indians who are not taxed. However, should any male above the age of 21 be restricted the right to vote for any reason beyond rebellion or an act of crime, then the basis of the represenation will be reduced solely to those who were given the capacity to vote in that state. (Meaning they'll have much less representation, which would be more detrimental in that time, back when states having more or less power in the house actually meant something)
Section 3. No person can hold any elected office under the United States of America if they've commited any sort of felony, act of rebellion against the United States, or assisted the enemies of the United States, but this ineligibility can be removed on a case-by-case basis on a two-thirds majority vote of each house.
Section 4. The validity of the debt of the United States treasury will not be questioned, but nor will the United States nor any state among them pay any debt made in the assistance of rebellion against the united states, or any claim for the loss or emancipation of slaves. (Meaning they're not going to pay for the freed slaves nor give any money to those who act in rebellion against the United States)
Section 5. Congress can enforce what's written here.

Since you're a student, it doesn't really affect you, since you're not yet 21 years of age, and this amendment also does not yet provide women the right to vote, as well you are not yet eligible for any public office and have had no slaves to which you need to make a claim for their loss. The first section however, affects everyone, it guarantees you equal opportunity and protection of the law and protection of the rights of life, liberty and property when the government doesn't have a proper reason to violate it. So you will not be killed by the government without having been convicted of a crime that merits the penalty of death, your liberty will not be restricted until you are convicted of crimes where you have infringes on the liberties of others, and your property will not be taken from you unless the government feels it has a better purpose for it. While this isn't perfect, it's certainly extraordinary from any government before it.

Answer 2

Section 5 Of The 14th Amendment

Answer 3

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what does the 14th amendment mean and how can it affect you as a student?
Amendment 14th

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...

Answer 4

The Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is one of the post-Civil War amendments and it includes the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses. It was proposed on June 13, 1866, and ratified on July 9, 1868. [1]

The amendment provides a broad definition of national citizenship, overturning a central holding of the Dred Scott case. It requires the states to provide equal protection under the law to all persons (not only to citizens) within their jurisdictions.

Current Supreme Court Justice David Souter has called this amendment "the most significant structural provision adopted since the original Framing". (McCreary County v. ACLU of Kentucky (2005)), although the true significance of the Amendment was not realized until the 1950s and 1960s, when it was interpreted to prohibit racial segregation in public schools and other facilities in Brown v. Board of Education.

Answer 5

I don't understand your question. What does your being a student have anything to do with how the 14th amendment applies?

Answer 6

The 14th Amendment was born from the Civil War. It includes a clear definition of citizenship - one of the rights stripped of slaves and Black Americans. It provides for equal protection under the law - most anti-discrimination laws (sex, disability, sexual orientation, race, religion) are born from this premise. It also penalized states in apportionment to Congress if they denied the right to vote to any citizens (common practice in the South - Jim Crowe laws). This amendment was Congress' way to prevent the Supreme Court from ruling that rights granted in the Civil Rights Act of 1866 were unconstitutional.

Also, resulting from the Civil War, it prevented any person from being elected to Congress that took part in an "insurrection, rebellion, or treason."

Due Process is also a part of the Fourteenth amendment, but it is more focused on expanding that of the Fifth amendment - "No State shall ... deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law...." The Fifth applies to the federal government while the Fourteenth applies to the states. Due process is grandly and widely interpreted to apply in TONS of situations. Without knowing the crux of your question on "how does it apply to students" I can't really answer.

Answer 7

Was wondering the same thing

Answer 8

Sorry, I've no idea about this