What does The 14th Amendment in simple terms mean?

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i'm doing this court case for my government class and i don't understand what the 14th amendment means considering it is so wordy in the constitution...

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The 14th 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 much important and controversial case law regarding privacy rights, abortion (see Roe v. Wade), and other issues.

The first section formally defines citizenship and requires the states to provide civil rights.
The second section establishes rules for establishing the number of representatives in Congress to states, essentially counting all residents for apportionment and reducing apportionment if a state wrongfully denies a person's right to vote.

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What does The 14th Amendment in simple terms mean?
i'm doing this court case for my government class and i don't understand what the 14th amendment means considering it is so wordy in the constitution...

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It says a lot. But you only want the first section. Where it says ''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.'' Now, Technically, this would make abortions illegal, as an abortion deprives a person of life without due process of law. But everyone just ignores that right now....but the Amendment is very clear. You could say that if we enforce this, then abortions would be illegal.

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Answer 6

I have just stumbled up on this issue of the 14Th Amendment to the Constitution, and am quite surprised that there has not been more discussion on the subject of the 14Th.

In understanding the principal of the 14Th Amendment, one must first understand, or keep in mind that the creators of this law are the masters of deception. As the creators of such law are the lawyers (or attorneys at law), one could say that it is control or job security, and that in and of itself is a topic of another discussion when it comes to deception. The Fourteenth Amendment was passed by Congress June 13, 1866, and allegedly ratified on July 9 1868; it was announced ratified on July 28, 1868. First view Section 1; it is as follows;
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.
2. 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
jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."
Note: The first order of the explanation is that of the first clause of Section 1. Again (now think about this), it reads as follows:
"All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, ar3e citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside."

We are now talking about two separate nations within the borders of the several United States. The United States Federal Government, and the several Sovereign several Nation States as in each of the 50 Nation States. (This is where dual citizenship enters the equation, but not discussed as such here at this time)
Those persons that are in the "Freedom Movement", for the most part believe that the citizenship that is imposed by the Fourteenth Amendment does not have an effect on them because:
1. They are not within the jurisdiction of the "United States," due to the fact that they
live in one of the several American states of the Union; or
2. They are not of African descent, so they belie3ve it does not pertain to them.

In a complete study of endeavor and search for the real issue behind the Fourteenth Amendment, one will find items 1. and 2. are erroneous philosophy-and others-will be put to a dead rest with further study. The is said that the Fourteenth Amendment was forced to be passed; in essence it was done at the point of a bayonet, especially when referencing the Southern States of the Southern Confederate Nation States.
Under the Fourteenth Amendment, there is the thought of "Citizenship by Presumption":
It is a fact that the phrase :subject to the jurisdiction:" of the United states does not include most all native inhabitants or people in the several American states; and that the Fourteenth Amendment actually naturalizes all American born in the several States at birth. That is-all Americans are as an "operation of law" are-or at minimum presumed to be -federal citizens at birth. Further, note that all Americans are deemed to have dual citizenship under the new amendment, the 14Th.

Now come an attempt to explain the premise of this inflicted federal (dual) citizenship: The most prevalent fact is the Fifteenth Amendment, on of the so-called reconstruction amendments that allowed the slaves (***** men) to vote. Much later, women were also given (actually-legislatively forced) the right to vote under the Nineteenth Amendment. One must note that both these amendments have the phrase "citizen of the United States" utilized in them. Moreover, it should be noted that under the original political system these amendments are considered unlawful.

In the original constitutional system prior to the Fourteenth Amendment, customs governed the decision of a society to allow these people to vote or not. This was a State Right that was held under the Tenth Article in the Amendment. In other words: The federal government (or Congress) could not interfere withy the people (representatives) of the Several American republics or better known as States.

You probably are, or might ask; so, what does this all have to do with White Men and Dual Citizenship? Now, to expand the enquiry: The most important fact to comprehend is that the government of the United States works on presumption under tacit consent-i.e. contract-using international law.

For such reason, like all the ***** people and women- all men too are or considered to be "citizens of the United States" by their action. In other words; if it looks like a Duck and quacks like a Duck, then it must be a Duck. Simply put, the IS NOT two political systems.

All such above mentioned matters aside, there is what the drafter of the amendment stated:
"In the firs place, we ask that they will agree to certain changes in the Constitution of the United States; and, to begin with, we want them to unite with us in broadening the citizenship of the Republic. The slaves recently emancipated by proclamation, and subsequently by Constitutional Amendment, have no civil status. They should be made citizens. We do not, by making them citizens, make them voter.-we do not, in the
Constitutional Amendment, attempt to force them upon Southern white men as equals at the ballot-box; but we do intend that they shall be admitted to citizenship, that they shall have the protection of the laws, that they shall not, any more than the rebels shall, be deprived of life, of liberty, of property, without due process of law, and that they shall not be denied the equal protection of the law." And in making this extension of the citizenship, we are not confining the breadth and scope or our efforts to the *****. It is for the white man as well. We intend to make citizenship National. Heretofore, a man has been a citizen of the United States because he was a citizen of some-one of the States; now, we propose to reverse that, and make hem a citizen of any State where he chooses to reside, by defining in advance his National citizenship-and our Amendment declares that "all persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the States wherein they reside.

This is just the beginning of an Amendment that violates the principles of the original Supreme Law of the Land, namely, the Constitution of the United States.

Answer 7

Gays should not be able to marry under this amendment, I dont care what OUR higher Court SAYS, They reading it WRONG and ILL fight this or PICK_IT, ITS WRONG. Im pissd and Im a former Marine, My OLD man and grandfather would turn over in there graves.