Fourteenth Amendment

How To Use Fourteenth Amendment In A Sentence

• The appellant, while admitting that the people may protect themselves against abuses of the freedom of speech safeguarded by the Fourteenth Amendment by prohibiting incitement to violence and crime insists that legislative regulation may not go beyond measures forefending against ‘clear and present danger’ of the use of force against the state.
• Mr. Speeker, that the scope and meaning of the limitations imposed by the first section, fourteenth amendment of the Constitution may be more fully understood, permit me to say that the privileges and immunities of citizens of the United States, as contradistinguished from citizens of a State, are chiefly defined in the first eight amendments to the Constitution of the United States. The Volokh Conspiracy » Open Comment Thread on McDonald
• Because the detriment to the child standard is necessary to protect the due process rights of nonconsenting biological parents, a conclusion that the General Assembly intended to abandon that standard would lead us to deduce that Code §§ 63.2 – 1203 and – 1205 facially violate the Fourteenth Amendment. The Volokh Conspiracy » Adoption Over Parent’s Objection Requires Showing That Continued Parent-Child Relationship Would Be Detrimental to the Child 
• You may construct a historical argument that draws on the history of the Fourteenth Amendment, Reconstruction, and postwar American history, or you may choose to focus on the cases themselves.
• Here again the Court was not ready to extend the protection of explicit Bill of Rights guarantees, but relied on the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
• The origins of the Fourteenth Amendment, as a blueprint for the reconstruction of the Confederate states after the Civil War, informed its interpretation in the courts for many years.
• The Fourteenth Amendment directs that "no state" can discriminate, and for many years it was thought that private discrimination could not be reached by public law.
• Yet in constitutional terms, since the Fourteenth Amendment already guarantees "equal protection of the laws," it is unclear just how an equal rights amendment would affect existing law.
• The Fourteenth Amendment further confirms the new sense of the United States as a national community with its clause prohibiting the states from "depriv [ing] any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; [or denying] to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. Republic Broadcasting Network
• This segregation was alleged to deprive the plaintiffs of the equal protection of the laws under the Fourteenth Amendment.