An interpretation of one clause of this amendment was handed down in the cases Elk v. Wilkins and U.S. v. Wong Kim Ark, which refuted one tenet of the Chinese Exclusion Act.
An interpretation of one clause of this amendment was handed down in the cases Elk v. Wilkins and U.S. v. Wong Kim Ark, which refuted one tenet of the Chinese Exclusion Act. Its fourth section discusses the assumption of debts by federal and state governments. This amendment was invoked by a dissenting judge who wrote that "the Constitution is color-blind" in the case Plessy v. Ferguson. This amendment expressly requires states to guarantee individual rights in its due process clause. For 10 points, name this 1868 amendment that includes the equal protection clause and granted rights to former slaves.
An interpretation of one clause of this amendment was handed down in the cases Elk v. Wilkins and U.S. v. Wong Kim Ark, which refuted one tenet of the Chinese Exclusion Act.
{fourteenth} amendment