charles holmes

The Fourteenth Amendment

Of the three "Civil War Amendments" to the United States Constitution, the 14th is the most comprehensive and powerful as it:
-grants CITIZENSHIP to former slaves, and others,
-provides persons in the USA the right to the Equal
Protection of the law,
-provides, and reaffirms, to persons in the USA the
Constitutional right to Due Process of the law,
-empowers the Congress of the USA to enact laws
that achieve and further the objectives of this
Amendment,
-provides, to an extent, a foundation for the
Fifteenth and Nineteenth Amendments,
-the amendment addressed several other issues
which were pertinent at that time.