Amendment 14: Civil Rights (passed in 1868)
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.
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No State
shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities
of citizens of the United States;
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any State deprive any person of life, liberty or property, without due process
of law;
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nor deny
to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
