How can state courts interpret their own constitutions to provide broader protections than the federal courts' interpretation of the Fourteenth Amendment?

With evenhanded attention to primary sources, The Original Meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment shows how the principles of the Declaration eventually came to ... Jan 29, 2024 ... Experts debate whether the Supreme Court should overturn Colorado's decision to keep Trump off the state's ballot at Harvard Law School's Rappaport Forum. Apr 11, 2024 ... The 14th amendment guarantees equal protection and due process to all people in the United States, regardless of citizenship. Apr 1, 2025 ... Added to the Constitution after the Civil War, the 14th Amendment affirms that all persons born or naturalized in the United States are citizens ... Jul 8, 2016 ... The 14th Amendment redefined American citizenship and fundamentally altered the relationship between the states and the Federal government. It ... The Fourteenth Amendment affirmed the new rights of freed women and men in 1868. The law stated that everyone born in the United States, including former slaves ... Fourteenth Amendment. Amendment XIV. This is a drawing of a blank, open journal and a quill. ... The 14th Amendment to the Constitution was ratified on July 9, ... All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they ... Under the Penalty Clause, states that deny or abridge otherwise qualified citizens' right to vote are penalized with a reduction of their congressional ... May 7, 2011 ... In contrast, this Note argues that ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment—which, as the Supreme Court acknowledged in. Fitzpatrick v. Bitzer, ...