The Fourteenth Amendment-Rights Guaranteed, Privileges and Immunities of Citizenship, Due Process, and Equal Protection

• Author: Rebecca Ann Taylor
• Profession: Writer and attorney
• Pages: 149-150

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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.1

Equal Protection

Equal protection is central to the civil rights battles of today, as it

1. U.S. C. amend. XIX, § 1.

Chapter 5

e Fourteenth Amendment—

Rights Guaranteed,

Privileges and Immunities

of Citizenship, Due Process,

and Equal Protection

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