242.+Which+amendment+to+the+U.S.+Constitution+grants+citizenship+to+all+persons+born+in+the+United+States+and+guarantees+them+equal+protection+under+the+law?

Hey this is Kevin M.'s page! Which amendment to the U.S. Constitution grants citizenship to all persons born in the United States and guarantees them equal protection under the law? The answer to the question is the 14th Amendment.

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This is the constitution. There are 27 amendments in the whole constitution. The begining part is the preamble it says,"We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."

The names of all the Amendments are:  The Legislative Branch, The Executive Branch,  The Judicial Branch,  Relations Between the States,  The Amendment Process,  General Provisions, Supremacy of the Constitution,   Ratification Process,  Freedom of speech, religion, press, petition and assembly,  Right to bear arms and militia, Quartering of soldiers,  Warrants and searches,  Individual debt and double jeopardy,  Speedy trial, witnesses and accusations,   Right for a jury trial,  Bail and fines,  Existence of other rights for the people,  Power reserved to the states and people,  Suits against states,  Election of executive branch,  Prohibition of slavery,  Privileges or immunities, due process, elections and debt,  Race and the right to vote,  Income tax,  Senator election and number,  Prohibition on sale of alcohol,  Sex and the right to vote,  "Lame duck" session of Congress eliminated,  Repeal of Article XVIII,  Limit of Presidential terms,  Election rules for the District of Columbia,  Taxes and the right to vote,  Rules of Presidential succession,  Age and the right to vote,  Pay raises and Congress.

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.

Representatives 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 inhabitants 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.

No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability. The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned. But neither the United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or any claim for the loss or emancipation of any slave; but all such debts, obligations and claims shall be held illegal and void.

The fourteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States was proposed to the legislatures of the several States by the Thirty-ninth Congress, on the 13th of June, 1866. It was declared, in a certificate of the Secretary of State dated July 28, 1868 to have been ratified by the legislatures of 28 of the 37 States. The dates of ratification were: Connecticut, June 25, 1866; New Hampshire, July 6, 1866; Tennessee, July 19, 1866; New Jersey, September 11, 1866 (subsequently the legislature rescinded its ratification, and on March 24, 1868, readopted its resolution of rescission over the Governor's veto, and on Nov. 12, 1980, expressed support for the amendment); Oregon, September 19, 1866 (and rescinded its ratification on October 15, 1868); Vermont, October 30, 1866; Ohio, January 4, 1867 (and rescinded its ratification on January 15, 1868); New York, January 10, 1867; Kansas, January 11, 1867; Illinois, January 15, 1867; West Virginia, January 16, 1867; Michigan, January 16, 1867; Minnesota, January 16, 1867; Maine, January 19, 1867; Nevada, January 22, 1867; Indiana, January 23, 1867; Missouri, January 25, 1867; Rhode Island, February 7, 1867; Wisconsin, February 7, 1867; Pennsylvania, February 12, 1867; Massachusetts, March 20, 1867; Nebraska, June 15, 1867; Iowa, March 16, 1868; Arkansas, April 6, 1868; Florida, June 9, 1868; North Carolina, July 4, 1868 (after having rejected it on December 14, 1866); Louisiana, July 9, 1868 (after having rejected it on February 6, 1867); South Carolina, July 9, 1868 (after having rejected it on December 20, 1866).

I found the above information at http://www.house.gov/paul/const-amend.html and from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution

The Fourteenth Amendment was proposed on June 13, 1866, and ratified on July 9, 1868.

The U.S. Constitution was drafted on September 17, 1787 It was officially ratified and became effective March 4, 1789. The first ten amendments (the "Bill of Rights") were ratified December 15, 1791.

This is Philadelphia where the Constitution was signed.

This is a picture of the signing of the Constitution in September 17, 1787.





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