Volume 19 , Issue 4

U. S. Constitution, Amendment XIV

Amendment XIV addresses many aspects of citizenship and the rights of citizens. The most commonly used phrase in the amendment is "Equal protection of the laws," which figures prominently in a wide variety of landmark cases.

Section 1 - All 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.

Section 1 deals with privileges and Immunities clause, civil rights, slaughterhouse cases, due process, substantive due process, right of privacy (personal autonomy), territorial jurisdiction, equal protection, Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), Player v. Doe (1982).
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