why was the fourteenth amendment important?

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Answer 1

So people will not be thrown into jail and held forever without due process.

Answer 2

"The Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution (Amendment XIV) is one of the post-Civil War amendments, intended to secure rights for former slaves. It includes the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses among others. It was proposed on June 13, 1866, and ratified on July 9, 1868.[1] It is now regarded as one of the most important components of the Constitution."

Answer 3

The Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution (Amendment XIV) is one of the post-Civil War amendments, intended to secure rights for former slaves. It includes the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses among others. It was proposed on June 13, 1866, and ratified on July 9, 1868.[1] It is now regarded as one of the most important components of the Constitution.

The amendment provides a broad definition of national citizenship, overturning the Dred Scott case, which excluded African Americans. It requires the states to provide equal protection under the law to all persons (not only to citizens) within their jurisdictions, and was used in the mid-20th century to dismantle legal segregation, as in Brown v. Board of Education. Its Due Process Clause has driven many important and controversial cases around privacy rights, abortion (see Roe v. Wade), and other issues.

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Answer 4

The fourteenth amendment has the equal protection clause that guaranteed rights to African Americans after the civil war. This prevented them from being denied privileges and civil liberties that where available to Caucasians.

THE FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT DID NOT ABOLISH SLAVERY!!!! That was the thirteenth. The fifteenth prohibited using race as an excuse to deny voting rights.

Answer 5

The fourteenth amendment is important because it makes every one born in the u.s a citizen and it makes sure that no state can make or enforce a law that takes a way someone's rights such as: life ,liberty and property without due process

Answer 6

It was important because it destroyed states' rights, increasing federal power, officially. (The Civil War did that, but only through force of arms. The pen used for the 14th was much more devastating, in that it cut off debate forever.)

It was important because it was written ambiguously, unlike the previous 14 amendments. (There was another 13th, that you don't hear much about.) The ambiguous wording, the length of the amendment, and the multiple topics it addressed, all allow the Supreme Court great latitude to usurp power in the name of the central government.

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The Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was designed to help secure the newly aquired liberty of former slaves, as well as all natural born citizens, and even those that aren't, by assuring the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses, to all peoples in the United States.

Text of the amendment:
“ 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 the power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.
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It secured the rights of former slaves and out laws black codes. everyone is equal :)

Answer 11

Made people born in the U.S., U.S. citizens. Pretty much "it helped a brotha out"