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14 pages in length. The extent to which the Fourteenth Amendment continues to secure inherent rights of born or naturalized United States citizens is both grand and far-reaching. That this particular Amendment reaches far beyond superficiality and delves deeply into so many seemingly unrelated issues speaks to its importance in upholding the foundation of personal freedom held so precious in this country. Bibliography lists 16 sources.
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Palmer; Turner v Safley IV. Education a) Brown v Board of Education b) Plessy v Ferguson V. Conclusion THE FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT by , Ph.D. (c) June
2003 paper properly! I. INTRODUCTION There are myriad facets of the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution that serve
to protect those who are either born or naturalized in America, not the least of which include due process, prisoners rights and educational equity. The five fundamental sections of
Amendment 14 state that 1) the aforementioned United States citizens are protected against circumventing inherent rights of such citizenship - life, liberty, property - without the benefit of due process;
2) State representation shall reflect whole persons, excepting untaxed Native Americans, for the purpose of voting. Moreover, ones voting privileges are bound to ones civil behavior and cannot be
abridged if the individual is in good standing with said behavior and at least twenty-one years of age; 3) Anyone seeking to hold a government position shall not have any
history of rebellion against said government; however, this ruling can be invalidated by a two-thirds vote from each House; 4) National debt shall not be questioned; and 5) Congress is
equipped with the authority to enforce aforementioned provisions of the Fourteenth Amendment via appropriate legislation (U.S. Constitution: Fourteenth Amendment). II. DUE PROCESS
Substantive due process is defined by Merriam-Webster as a judicial stipulation stating how enacted laws are not permitted to contain provisions resulting in the inequitable, discretionary or unreasonable treatment of
any individual (Merriam-Webster PG). Its appearance upon the American historical timeline was during the African-American struggle for freedom. The extension of suffrage to black males was a combined
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