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The Fourteenth Amendment (Amendment XIV) to the United States Constitution was adopted on July 9, 1868, as one of the Reconstruction Amendments. The amendment addresses citizenship rights and equal protection of the laws, and was proposed in response to issues related to former slaves following the American Civil War.he court does not wish to hear argument on the question whether the provision in the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution, which forbids a State to deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws, applies to these corporations.
Today, the Fourteenth Amendment is still important because the Supreme Court has held that it applies many of the protections in the Bill of Rights against the states. The 14th amendment grants citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States, which included former slaves recently freed.