AP Success - AP US History: Fourteenth Amendment
The 14th Amendment did much more than give citizenship to newly freed slaves.
Section 1 All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall 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 shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed...
Section 3 No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.
Fourteenth Amendment, Equal Protection, and Rights of Citizens, 1868.
Question 1
Briefly identify one perspective about treason described in the excerpt.
Question 2
Briefly identify one historical trend that influenced Section 1.
Question 3
Briefly explain one way Section 2 nullifies the Three-Fifths Compromise.
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