Monday, July 27, 2009

Today is the anniversary of the Fourteenth Amendment

JURIST: Today in Legal History:

On July 28, 1868, the Fourteenth Amendment to the US Constitution, granting citizenship to former slaves and protecting due process of law and equal protection of laws in the States, was ratified. 



Learn more about the history of the Fourteenth Amendment.

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