This amendment stated that anyone born in the United States is a citizen, and established equal protection and due process.
One of this law's provisions was interpreted by Strauder v. West Virginia, and Hugo Black hoped to incorporate the Bill of Rights against the states by invoking it. This law affirmed the national debt, but disavowed any debt from rebellions, and allowed a two-thirds vote of Congress to exempt someone from its prohibition on office-holding by former Confederate sympathizers. This measure also nullified the three-fifths clause, though it excepted "Indians not taxed", and established twenty-one as the voting age. This amendment stated that anyone born in the United States is a citizen, and established equal protection and due process. Name this second of the Reconstruction amendments.
One of this law's provisions was interpreted by Strauder v. West Virginia, and Hugo Black hoped to incorporate the Bill of Rights against the states by invoking it.
{fourteenth} amendment to the United States Constitution