Amendments Quote by Robert Bork

The 14th Amendment was passed after the Civil War to apply to former slaves to ensure that they are treated like all other citizens.…

— Rush Limbaugh

When the 14th Amendment, equal protection clause was enacted, the galleries in the Senate were segregated. Now we have integration.

— Arlen Specter

“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 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

If the Bill of Rights was intended to place strict limits on federal power and protect individual and locality from the national government the…

— Ilana Mercer

As a matter of history, the Fourteenth Amendment was not understood to ban segregation on the basis of race.

— Cass Sunstein

“Americans had to work around the requirements of the Fourteenth Amendment, and more broadly around their announced traditions of equality; and in consequence their…

— James Q Whitman

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

Amendment of the constitution is the minority's affair. Constitutions are invented to protect the rights of suppressed groups.

— Mohammad MUSTAFA

The takings clause of the Fifth Amendment is for conservatives what the equal protection clause of the 14th is for liberals.

— Michael Kinsley

When did it become unconstitutional to exclude homosexual couples from marriage? 1791? 1868, when the 14th Amendment was adopted?

— Antonin Scalia

The great aim of the struggle for liberty has been equality before the law.

— Friedrich August von Hayek