[Talisker]

When did this become a country where the government’s convenience trumps the rights of the people?

July 28, 1868

[BenLurkin]

This Day in History: July 28, 1868

Following its ratification by the necessary three-quarters of U.S. states, the 14th Amendment is officially adopted into the U.S. Constitution.

The amendment resolved pre-Civil War questions of African American citizenship by stating that “all persons born or naturalized in the United States…are citizens of the United States and of the state in which they reside.” The amendment then reaffirmed the privileges and rights of all citizens, and granted all these citizens the “equal protection of the laws.”

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