The 14th Amendment In The Constitution And The Fourteenth Amendment

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Supreme Court Essay The Fourteenth Amendment has, overall, been a great incorporation into the Constitution through its equal protection clause, due process clause, and other specific feature such as the ability to be show the presence of the separate but equal mindset invested amongst individuals in the Court case of Plessy v. Ferguson, the implementation of said mindset in the decision of the Brown v. The Board of Education Supreme Court case, the usage of the due process clause in the 2000 presidential election between Republican George W. Bush and Democrat Al Gore, and both equal protection clause and de process clause in the more recent case of obergefell v. hodges. First off, Plessy v Ferguson is a prime example for the use of the fourteenth …show more content…

Ferguson affected segregated schools because it instituted the separate but equal mindset into the minorities and groups that were at victim to the declination of this first case. Especially African Americans, who noticed that, despite the amendments, were still were being treated differently and more harsh than white folks in some parts of the country, especially the south. Actually, many states of the south had state laws requiring the segregation of races. These very laws were the ones Plessy argued to get rid of because it’s altercation with the amendments. They were Jim Crow laws. This was almost the start of the effort to remove these discriminatory laws practiced in some states and instead follow the COnstitution of the United States of AMerica. Effect on today An individual can see how Plessy v Ferguson, despite having to be overturned by the Brown v. The Board of Education course, affected the society and the United States of America in general. Plessy v. Ferguson was the first test on the equal protection clause of the fourteenth amendment and “lost.” Years later, it was the same clause that overturned the …show more content…

Hodges is more of a recent test of the fourteenth amendment of the constitution, having happened around two years ago from now. Some groups of same-sex couples sued Ohio, Michigan, Kentucky, and Tennessee’s state agencies “to challenge the constitutionality of those states’ bans on samesex marriage or refusal to recognize legal same-sex marriages that occurred in jurisdictions that provided for such marriages.” According to the plaintiffs, the equal protection and the due process clause of the fourteenth amendment were violated. There were two questions to ponder. One, “Does the fourteenth amendment require a state to license a marriage between two people of the same sex?” Two, “Does the fourteenth amendment require a state to recognize a marriage between two people of the same sex that was legally licensed and performed in another

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