"Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. 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.
Section 2. Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed. But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the Executive and Judicial officers of a State, or the members of the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State, being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion, or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such State.
Section 3. No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.
Section 4. The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned. But neither the United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or any claim for the loss or emancipation of any slave; but all such debts, obligations and claims shall be held illegal and void.
Section 5. The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article."
This Amendment in section one, states that all person who was born in the US is a citizen of the United States and the state where he/she was born. The states do not have the right to deny their privileges. Also the state shalll not punish them without a proper trial.
Section two states that the number of representatives for the house of representatives will be determined for each state by the number of people that lives in the state, not counting Indians who did not pay taxes. Also, any male above the age of 21 be restricted the right to vote for any reason beyond rebellion or an act of crime, then the basis of the representation will be reduced solely to those who were given the capacity to vote in that state.
Section 3 states that no person can hold any elected office under the United States of America if they've committed any sort of felony, act of rebellion against the United States, or assisted the enemies of the United States.
Section 4 states that the validity of the debt of the United States treasury will not be questioned, but the United State will not pay any debt made in the assistance of rebellion against the united states, or any claim for the loss or emancipation of slaves.
Section 5. Congress has the power to enforce what is written in this amendment.
Bye! Bye! Fourteenth Amendment
Comment:
This amendment says very clear that ALL people born in this country shall not be denied of their citizenship from the country and state where they are born. I do not think it is fair that just because the parents of the baby are not from the USA shall be denied from their rights. I completely agree with the reporter saying that this act is discriminatory against the new born.
NEED TO KNOW | In perspective: Dred Scott and the Fourteenth Amendment | PBS
Comment:
The Fourteenth Amendment states that all those born in the USA have all the rights allow to a citizens, it does not say that if the parents of that person are original from a different country they should be denied from their rights. At some point in each of our family origins our ancestors could came illegally and they had kids and you are all citizens today, so wouldn't it be fair to go back and denied their citizenship as well?
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