As a matter of history, the Fourteenth Amendment was not…

We ought to ban hunting, I suggest, if there isn't a purpose other than sport and fun. That should be against the law.

— Cass Sunstein

We ought to ban hunting, I suggest, if there isn't a purpose other than sport and fun. That should be against the law. It's…

— Cass Sunstein

“The purpose of our Constitution—especially the Fourteenth Amendment’s equal-protection guarantee—is to protect minority rights even when, or especially when, they are unpopular.”

— Michelle Alexander

The Fourteenth Amendment, after the civil war, in principle brought former slaves into the category of persons, theoretically. But if you actually look, almost…

— Noam Chomsky

When a young non-white male is stopped and searched at the whim of a police officer, his idea of personal space, privacy and self…

— Henry Rollins

“Though Article II requires “natural born” citizenship, the Constitution does not explain what the phrase means. There was no constitutional definition of American citizenship…

— Garrett Epps

The broadening of the economic order which came to be seated in the individual property owner... dramatized by Jefferson's purchase of the Louisiana Territory...…

— C. Wright Mills

“the Ku Klux Klan Act. He had planned a California trip that spring, but canceled it in the belief that he couldn’t sidestep this…

— Ron Chernow

“Other corporations have asserted Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination as well as asserted that the Fourteenth Amendment—passed after the Civil War to strip slavery…

— Thom Hartmann

The First and Fourteenth Amendments say that Congress and the States shall make "no law" which abridges freedom of speech or of the press.…

— William O. Douglas

The purpose that brought the fourteenth amendment into being was equality before the law, and equality, not separation, was written into the law.

— Robert Bork

I believe that nothing enjoys a higher estate in our society than the right given by the First and Fourteenth Amendments freely to practice…

— Frank Murphy

Marriage is not defined in the federal Constitution at all; it's a matter for the states. And applying the Fourteenth Amendment to the equality…

— Mike Huckabee

“Taft ended his opinion with an added clause, a statement so bold that it would rattle even his strongest supporters. The chief justice of…

— Adrienne Berard

The Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States was enacted in 1865 by martial law. The Fourteenth Amendment was enacted in 1868…

— Eustace Mullins