14th amendment
noun
an amendment to the u.s. const-tution, ratified in 1868, defining national citizenship and forbidding the states to restrict the basic rights of citizens or other persons.
fourteenth amendment definition
an amendment to the united states const-tution, adopted in 1868. it was primarily concerned with details of reintegrating the southern states after the civil war and defining some of the rights of recently freed slaves. the first section of the amendment, however, was to revolutionize federalism. it stated that no state could “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.” gradually, the supreme court interpreted the amendment to mean that the guarantees of the bill of rights apply to the states as well as to the national government.
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