The purpose that brought the fourteenth amendment into being was equality before the law, and equality, not separation, was written into the… — Robert Bork Copy Share Image
As a matter of history, the Fourteenth Amendment was not understood to ban segregation on the basis of race. — Cass Sunstein Copy Share Image
I believe that nothing enjoys a higher estate in our society than the right given by the First and Fourteenth Amendments freely… — Frank Murphy Copy Share Image
The First and Fourteenth Amendments say that Congress and the States shall make "no law" which abridges freedom of speech or of… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
“Other corporations have asserted Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination as well as asserted that the Fourteenth Amendment—passed after the Civil War to… — Thom Hartmann Copy Share Image
The Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States was enacted in 1865 by martial law. The Fourteenth Amendment was enacted… — Eustace Mullins Copy Share Image
The broadening of the economic order which came to be seated in the individual property owner... dramatized by Jefferson's purchase of the… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
Marriage is not defined in the federal Constitution at all; it's a matter for the states. And applying the Fourteenth Amendment to… — Mike Huckabee Copy Share Image
“the Ku Klux Klan Act. He had planned a California trip that spring, but canceled it in the belief that he couldn’t… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
“Taft ended his opinion with an added clause, a statement so bold that it would rattle even his strongest supporters. The chief… — Adrienne Berard Copy Share Image
I'm not up for changing the Tenth Amendment or the Fourteenth Amendment, the First Amendment or the Second Amendment. — Andrew Breitbart Copy Share Image
No patent medicine was ever put to wider and more varied use than the Fourteenth Amendment. — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
When a young non-white male is stopped and searched at the whim of a police officer, his idea of personal space, privacy… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
A lot of people are talking about defunding planned parenthood, as if that's a huge game changer. I think it's time to… — Mike Huckabee Copy Share Image
“Though Article II requires “natural born” citizenship, the Constitution does not explain what the phrase means. There was no constitutional definition of… — Garrett Epps Copy Share Image
“Americans had to work around the requirements of the Fourteenth Amendment, and more broadly around their announced traditions of equality; and in… — James Q Whitman Copy Share Image
There is no question that under the Equal Rights Amendment there will be debates at times, indecision at times, litigation at times.… — Frances Farenthold Copy Share Image
“...pointed out that the corporation enjoys the same rights as a living person under the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution. This concept… — John Perkins Copy Share Image
The First Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment rights in the United States Constitution were being violated in Albany again and again - freedom… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
The Fourteenth Amendment, after the civil war, in principle brought former slaves into the category of persons, theoretically. But if you actually… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
