Fourteenth Amendment
CLEP American Government, Chapter 25 Fourteenth Amendment Fourteenth Amendment Ratified in 1868, the Fourteenth Amendment constitutionalized a new national understanding of citizenship and state responsibility. Its Citizenship Clause repudiated Dred Scott's exclusion of Black Americans from national citizenship. Its Privileges or Immunities, Due Process, and Equal Protection Clauses restrict state action, while Section 5 authorizes […]
Reconstruction Amendments
CLEP American Government, Chapter 25 Reconstruction Amendments Reconstruction Amendments The Reconstruction Amendments changed both individual rights and national power. The Thirteenth ended slavery; the Fourteenth defined national and state citizenship and restricted state action through the Privileges or Immunities, Due Process, and Equal Protection Clauses; the Fifteenth prohibited denying or abridging the vote on account […]
