The 14th Amendment:
allows citizenship to any person born into the United States (that included slaves and former slaves) forbids any state to deny a person his or her natural rights "life, liberty,...
The first amendment gives US citizens the rights of free speech, peaceful assembly, etc. They're also called our "Basic Civil Liberties," which give us rights as US citizens. The 14th amendment gave...
The Fourteenth Amendment sets a definition for citizenship, including the Constitutional rights of slaves and their descendants.
Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States,...