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1. Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment do not limit state power to legislate on economic matters. 29.

2. Kay said the ruling violates the Fourteenth Amendment, and could affect landmark rulings on reproductive rights.

3. Yet in constitutional terms, since the Fourteenth Amendment already guarantees "equal protection of the laws," it is unclear just how an equal rights amendment would affect existing law.

4. The Fourteenth Amendment to the U-S Constitution provides that all persons born or naturalized in the United States are citizens.

5. What difference does the history of the Fourteenth Amendment (and the intentions of its framers ) make for your decision?

6. The Fourteenth Amendment – unlike the Bill of Rights – was specifically aimed at the states.

7. Yet although the Fourteenth Amendment became part of the Constitution in 1868, almost 90 years passed before this broad interpretation of the meaning of "equal protection" flowered.

8. The answer was found in the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution, which had been enacted after the Civil War as a way to protect the newly freed slaves from discriminatory southern officials.

9. The Fourteenth Amendment gave citizenship to anyone born in the United States and guaranteed equal protection to all people.

10. In the wake of the Fourteenth Amendment, the states could not, among other things, deprive people of the equal protection of the laws.

11. Before the enactment of the Fourteenth Amendment, the Bill of Rights protected individual rights only from invasion by the federal government.

12. The Fourteenth Amendment directs that "no state" can discriminate, and for many years it was thought that private discrimination could not be reached by public law.

13. The Fourteenth Amendment says states may not deny anyone the equal protection of the laws.

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14. The origins of the Fourteenth Amendment, as a blueprint for the reconstruction of the Confederate states after the Civil War, informed its interpretation in the courts for many years.

15. Reargument was largely devoted to the circumstances surrounding the adoption of the Fourteenth Amendment in 1868.

16. This authority must, of course, be exercised within the constraints of S 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment.

17. The black people gained the civil rights, especially the voting right, and the Equal Protection of the Laws Clause in the Fourteenth Amendment to protect their rights during the Reconstruction.

18. are, by reason of the segregation complained of, deprived of the equal protection of the laws guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment.

19. Here again the Court was not ready to extend the protection of explicit Bill of Rights guarantees, but relied on the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.

20. In America, the freedom of speech is protected by the first and the fourteenth Amendment of the Federal Constitution.

21. This segregation was alleged to deprive the plaintiffs of the equal protection of the laws under the Fourteenth Amendment.

22. Yet, from the very beginning the meaning of "equal protection" has at times been confusing, perhaps because the framers of the Fourteenth Amendment left us no explanation of exactly what they meant.

23. Therefore, we hold that the plaintiffs and others ... are, by reason of the segregation complained of, deprived of the equal protection of the laws guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment.

24. The Congress of the United States constituted the "Equal protection of the laws Clause" in the Fourteenth Amendment to protect the black people's rights during the Reconstruction.

25. More concretely, the Equal Protection Clause, along with the rest of the Fourteenth Amendment, marked a great shift in American constitutionalism.

26. You may construct a historical argument that draws on the history of the Fourteenth Amendment, Reconstruction, and postwar American history, or you may choose to focus on the cases themselves.