14th+Amendment


 * 14th Amendment**

This essay is on the //**14th amendment**//. You will learn some important & historical information that happened in this time period. Like for instance what lead to this event, how does this fit into history & how did it change America?The first topic is on how it affected America & it change our views of the justice system. The 14th amendment to the United State Consitution was 1 of the 3 amendments enacted after the **//Civil War//** as part of the Reconstruction amendments. This amendment provided citzenship. This amendment overruled **Dred //Scott v. Stanford//** which excluded slaves & descendants from achieving constitutional rights. This amendment was used in the 20th century to stop racial segregation like in **//"Brown v. Board of Education"//**. The amendment **//Equal Protection Clause//** requires states to have equal protection under law to all people.This amendment also includes dealings with the //**Confederate States**.//
 * INTRO:**
 * ABOUT IT:**

During the **//1880's//**, the court translated the 4th amendment's **//Due Process Clause//** as providing a large protection to private contracts that allows a range of social & economic regulation. The court came to the agreement that the 14th amendment protected **//"freedom of contract"//**. It also protected the right for employees & employers to bargain without interferance from the state. Therefore, the court denied a law decreeing maximum hours for workers in a bakery in **//Lochner v. New York//**. Then denied a minimum wage law in **//Adkins v. Children Hospital//**. The Due process of law had been recognized as a restraint upon government with the exception of Dret Scott decision, only in the narrower sense that a legislature must provide //**"Due Process for the Enforcement of Law"**.//
 * DUE PROCESS CLAUSE:**

In the Dred Scott Case, the court rulled that the United States citizenship was used for two classes. They are the following, **1.)white person born in the United States as decendents of the people who were the during the adoption of the Constitution** & **2.) those who have been born outside the United States that migrated there**. The African race according to the Chief Justice, was not able to attain United States citizenship from a state nor from the virtue of birth in the United States. Even a free man who ancestors were negro & came when the constitution was adopted wasn't a citizen.
 * CITIZENS OF THE UNITED STATES:**

This essay had many importants facts on the 14th amendment. It stuck to the point & answered questions that you might of had about the 14th amendment, even the ones asked in the introduction. Even though there is still more I can say on this topic, it basically was a introduction talking were it stand in the Constitution & how it was used for certain topics.
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