There are 27 amendments to the Constitution. It is one of the Resconstruction Amendments which were put in place after the Civil War. The 14th Amendment says that everyone born or naturalized in the United States is a citizen of the United States. No state can make a law restricting or revoking that right.
This is important because Dred Scott v. Sandford in 1857 did not allow slaves or their ancestors to participate in the rights provided by the Constitution.
Read more about this at http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h232.html and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution and http://www.14thamendment.us/
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2 comments:
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