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Fourteenth Amendment   /fˈɔrtˈinθ əmˈɛndmənt/   Listen
Fourteenth Amendment

noun
1.
An amendment to the Constitution of the United States adopted in 1868; extends the guarantees of the Bill of Rights to the states as well as to the federal government.






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"Fourteenth Amendment" Quotes from Famous Books



... own sake; to torture their feelings without any ulterior purpose? Certainly such a purpose could not by any possibility animate high-minded men. I presume, therefore, that those who still favor the continuance of some of the disabilities imposed by the Fourteenth Amendment do so because they have some higher object of public usefulness in view, an object of public usefulness sufficient to justify, in their minds at least, the denial of rights to ...
— Elements of Debating • Leverett S. Lyon

... written into the constitution, women contended they had a right to vote under the new fourteenth amendment. Miss Anthony led in this agitation, urging all women to claim the right to vote under this amendment. In the national election of 187'2 she voted in Rochester, New York, her home city, was arrested, tried and convicted of the crime of "voting without having ...
— Jailed for Freedom • Doris Stevens



Words linked to "Fourteenth Amendment" :   amendment, jurisprudence, United States Constitution, law, Constitution of the United States, constitution, U.S. Constitution, US Constitution



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