The seven articles and twenty-seven amendments to our national Constitution contain roughly 8,000 words. Of those, perhaps none have generated so much intense controversy as the fifty-two words placed inconspicuously in the second sentence of the Fourteenth Amendment: “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.” In this sentence’s three prohibitions—the Privileges or Immunities, Due Process, and…
|14th Amendment, Article IV, Civil Rights Act of 1866, Dred Scott, Due Process Clause, Equal Protection Clause, John Bingham, Privileges or Immunities Clause, Section 5 of the 14th Amendment, Slaughterhouse Cases
A New Birth of the Old Freedom
by David Upham|
