14th amendment Quote by Ilana Mercer

History has shown us that, on extraordinarily rare occasions, it becomes necessary for the federal government to intervene on behalf of individuals whose 14th…

— Michael K. Simpson

The 14th Amendment was recognized right away to be problematic. The concept of person was both too narrow and too broad, and the courts…

— Noam Chomsky

The Bill of Rights was not written to protect governments from trouble. It was written precisely to give the people the constitutional means to…

— Henry Steele Commager

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

Nothing in the 14th Amendment or in any other constitutional provision suggests that the president may usurp legislative power to prevent a violation of…

— Laurence Tribe

Revealingly, the central function of the Constitution as law--the supreme law--was to impose limitations not on the behavior of ordinary citizens but on the…

— Glenn Greenwald

The government was set to protect man from criminals-and the constitution was written to protect man from the government. The Bill of Rights was…

— Ayn Rand

As a young child, it became crystal clear to me that there were certain rights and privileges that other people had that my mother,…

— John Lewis

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

“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 Constitution was designed not to give us rights but to prevent government from taking our rights.”

— Thom Hartmann

The first ten amendments were proposed and adopted largely because of fear that Government might unduly interfere with prized individual liberties. The people wanted…

— Hugo Black