Fourteenth Amendment: References & Edit History
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| Type | Description | Contributor | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Add new Web site: LOUIS Pressbooks - Introduction to Criminal Justice - The Fourteenth Amendment. | Aug 29, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: National Park Service - The Road to 'Separate But Equal'. | May 04, 2026 | ||
| Article revised. | Mar 31, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: Justia - Fourteenth Amendment -- Rights Guaranteed: Privileges and Immunities of Citizenship, Due Process, and Equal Protection of the U.S. Constitution :: U.S. Constitution Annotated. | Mar 28, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: Constitution Annotated - Fourteenth Amendment. | Jan 16, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: Khan Academy - The Fourteenth Amendment | Constitution 101. | Oct 03, 2025 | ||
| Questions and answers added. | Mar 17, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Chicago Unbound - The Fourteenth Amendment: A Second American Revolution orThe Fourteenth Amendment: A Second American Revolution or the Logical Culmination of the Traditionthe Logical Culmination of the Tradition. | Oct 25, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: National Constitution Center - Citizenship Rights, Equal Protection, Apportionment, Civil War Debt. | Aug 10, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Encyclopedia Virginia - Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. | Jun 30, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Constitution Annotated - Fourteenth Amendment Equal Protection and Other Rights. | Mar 30, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Cornell Law School - Legal Information Institute - Fourteenth Amendment. | Aug 29, 2022 | ||
| Add new Web site: National Geographic Society - Jul 28, 1868 CE: 14th Amendment Ratified. | Jul 11, 2022 | ||
| Add new Web site: America's Story from America's Library - 14th Amendment to the Constitution Was Ratified. | Jul 11, 2022 | ||
| Corrected display issue. | Jun 08, 2021 | ||
| Article revised to identify Section 5 of the amendment as an enforcement section and to add cross-references to various articles. | Aug 14, 2019 | ||
| Corrected display issue. | Jul 11, 2018 | ||
| Add new Web site: Our Documents - 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Civil Rights (1868). | Feb 07, 2018 | ||
| Add new Web site: Cornell University Law School - Legal Information Institute - 14th Amendment. | Jun 05, 2015 | ||
| Add new Web site: The Oregon History Society - The Fourteenth Amendment. | Jun 05, 2015 | ||
| Added photograph. | Jul 16, 2010 | ||
| New article added. | Apr 14, 2009 |
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