The 14th Amendment

Civics 101

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Society & Culture, Government, History

4.2 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2023

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

The 14th Amendment granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States. It also granted them equal protection under the laws and guaranteed due process of law. Those are considered its most important provisions today. That wasn't always the case, however. Why did it take so long for the Supreme Court to affirm these provisions of this significant Amendment, and what does that say about politics at the highest court in the land? Our guide to the 14th Amendment is Aziz Huq, professor of law at the University of Chicago School of Law. CLICK HERE: Visit our website to see all of our episodes, donate to the podcast, sign up for our newsletter, get free educational materials, and more! To see Civics 101 in book form, check out A User's Guide to Democracy: How America Works by Hannah McCarthy and Nick Capodice, featuring illustrations by Tom Toro. Check out our other weekly NHPR podcast, Outside/In - we think you'll love it! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Mr. Chief Justice, Associate Justice May of the Police, the Court, we will divide the
0:20.0	argument accordingly.
0:21.4	I will hand it equal protection argument as we view it.
0:24.4	Mr. Colony, I give you the due process argument.
0:27.4	Nick, do you have any idea what case this is from?
0:30.1	Slavery law?
0:35.6	Slavery law?
0:36.2	Slavery law?
0:37.2	Slavery law?
0:38.2	Slavery law?
0:39.2	Uh, 2058 is the evasion section under which this case particularly arose, which makes it
0:47.1	a criminal act for people to go outside the state to avoid the laws of the
0:50.7	state.
0:51.7	Oh, okay.
0:52.7	Uh, loving, loving people in Virginia.
0:55.0	The issue is, may a state prescribe a marriage between two adult consenting individuals because
1:01.1	of their race.
1:02.1	And this would say much more.
1:03.1	That's right.
1:04.1	Super Famous case, the Supreme Court finds that a Virginia law prohibiting interracial
1:08.5	marriage is in violation of the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment.
1:13.7	Right.
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