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Fourteenth Amendment   /fˈɔrtˈinθ əmˈɛndmənt/   Listen
Fourteenth Amendment

noun
1.
An amendment to the Constitution of the United States adopted in 1868; extends the guarantees of the Bill of Rights to the states as well as to the federal government.





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"Fourteenth amendment" Quotes from Famous Books



... so far as founded upon honest divergence in legal theory, was embarrassing. It was made disgraceful by the violence of the radical Republicans and the intemperate retorts of Johnson. In 1866 Congress sent the Fourteenth Amendment to the States for ratification. In 1867 it passed its bills for actual reconstruction under the control of the army of the United States, and defied Johnson to interfere by refusing to allow him to remove ...
— The New Nation • Frederic L. Paxson


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