AMENDMENT XIV
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 law.
ACCOUNTABILITY
There are 5 sections in the Fourteenth Amendment. Section 1 addresses citizenship. In a very abbreviated history of its origin, the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments were addressing the freed slaves of the Civil War. Andrew Johnson did not want to confer citizenship to the freed slaves because of their race. The authors of the amendment wanted to permanently address the issue. I invite you to read the history of their motivations and from there draw your conclusions.
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