"The 14th Amendment"
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"The 14th Amendment"
Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the juridisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State where they reside. No State should make or enforce any laws which should abridge the privileges or ammunities of citizens of the United States; nor should any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
Section 2. Representatives should be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed. But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice-President of the United States, Representatives in Congress,...