Fourteenth Amendment

An amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1868, establishing birthright citizenship, equal protection, and due process of law, and subsequently used to extend civil rights and to empower corporations as legal persons.

Claims that use this term

• Corporate attorneys harnessed the Fourteenth Amendment to strengthen business interests
• Border states delayed ratifying the Fourteenth Amendment for over a century
• Birthright citizenship was added late to the Fourteenth Amendment
• Reparations face a Fourteenth Amendment bar but can rest on Thirteenth Amendment power