Lexic.us

Definition of Fourteenth Amendment

1. Noun. 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.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Fourteenth Amendment

Literary usage of Fourteenth Amendment

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Lectures on the Fourteenth Article of Amendment to the Constitution of the by William Dameron Guthrie (1898)
"Under the Fourteenth Amendment, that which had previously been recognized only as a principle of natural justice became a part of the Constitution itself; ..."

2. History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850 by James Ford Rhodes (1906)
"They adopted the Fourteenth Amendment and required of the Southern States its ratification before they should be restored to their old place in the Union. ..."

3. Documentary History of Reconstruction: Political, Military, Social by Walter Lynwood Fleming (1907)
"The Scope of the Fourteenth Amendment 92 Ü. S. Reports, p. 542. Cas« of US vs. Cruikshanks. Opinion by Chief Justice Walte. Follows the Slaughter House ..."

4. The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony: Including Public Addresses, Her Own by Ida Husted Harper (1899)
"The third plan is for women to take their right under the Fourteenth Amendment of the National Constitution, which declares that all persons are citizens, ..."

5. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1906)
"... fourteenth amendment, unless they can see clearly that there is no fair reason for the law that would not require with equal force Its extension to ..."

6. The Constitutional Law of the United States by Westel Woodbury Willoughby (1910)
"Legislative Power Granted Congress by the Fourteenth Amendment. From the foregoing cases it appears that the clause of the Fourteenth Amendment which ..."

7. The Police Power, Public Policy and Constitutional Rights by Ernst Freund (1904)
"Fourteenth Amendment.—The Fourteenth Amendment gave the negro the privilege and immunities of United States citizenship, and guaranteed to him the equal ..."

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