https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8SbUC-UaAxE<\/a><\/p>\nThe Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution changed the nature of our United States.\u00a0 From \u201c\u2026We the people of the United States\u2026\u201d of the preamble, establishing a federal government of sovereign states in 1787, the Fourteenth Amendment demonstrated the results of victory in Civil War, with the final outcome of one nation, indivisible.<\/p>\n
The Fourteenth extends the requirements of the Bill of Rights to the states.\u00a0 No longer were those rights \u00a0applied to just the Federal government, now each state government needed to protect them.\u00a0 Section 1 of the Amendment is clear:<\/p>\n
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.<\/em><\/p>\nIn our current political climate, the Fourteenth Amendment has immense significance.\u00a0 To start with the \u201ceasy\u201d argument, the plain language of the Amendment states that \u201call persons born or naturalized in the United States\u2026are citizens\u2026\u201d\u00a0 The foolishness put forth by the President, demanding the altering birth-citizenship laws, would require a Constitutional amendment to change the Fourteenth.<\/p>\n
The key provision of the Fourteenth is the \u201cdue process\u201d and \u201cequal protection\u201d clause.\u00a0 Due Process is interpreted to mean that before a \u201cright or privilege\u201d is taken away (life, liberty, or property, voting) there needs to be a process where the citizen is given the opportunity to argue their side.\u00a0This often is in a Court setting:\u00a0the most recent example would be the denial of CNN\u2019s Jim Acosta\u2019s First Amendment right to freedom of the press by kicking him out of the White House Press Room.\u00a0 CNN sued the White House because there was no \u201cdue process\u201d provided Acosta for the removal, and while the case is not yet resolved, a Federal District Judge has found enough validity in Acosta\u2019s arguments to temporarily order the White House to allow him back in.<\/p>\n
\u201cEqual Protection\u201d means that all citizens must be treated the same.\u00a0 This is a critical issue today; questions of voter suppression in some states, \u00a0religious rights and LGBTQ issues, and \u00a0ICE actions towards American citizens of Hispanic descent; all raise equal protection issues.<\/p>\n
The clause of the Fourteenth Amendment that is less discussed today is the second clause.<\/p>\n
Section 2.<\/em><\/p>\nRepresentatives 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\u00a0inhabitants 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.<\/em><\/p>\nParts of this clause have been changed by Amendment. \u00a0The 15th<\/sup>Amendment specifically guaranteed the right to vote to any race.\u00a0 The 19th<\/sup>Amendment allowed women to vote, and the 26th<\/sup>Amendment added those eighteen to twenty to the electorate.\u00a0This clause guaranteed suffrage, the right to vote, to everyone, and threatened to punish states that restricted suffrage by reducing the number of Representatives in the House of Representatives (and therefore the number of Electors for President.)<\/p>\nWhile that punishment was never exacted, even in the Jim Crow Era of grandfather clauses (you couldn\u2019t vote unless you grandfather could) and literacy tests; today it might be a cause to invoke in voter suppression cases, particularly in places like Georgia.\u00a0 If the state acts to suppress votes, particularly with a clearly racial bias, it would violate not only the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth and the Voting Rights clause of the 15th<\/sup>, but also the \u201cdenial of voting rights\u201d clause.\u00a0The state should either stop suppressing, or lose representation.<\/p>\nThe Fourteenth Amendment can be read historically as the legal implementation of victory in the Civil War.\u00a0But its implications are much more far-reaching, as it defines citizenship, and expands protection of rights from just the Federal government to the States.\u00a0 It should serve as a tripwire in our current era of regression and control; and remind us as well of what the alternatives are to protecting the law:\u00a0 Civil War that created in blood what could not be done by legislation.<\/p>\n
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