The ratification of the 14th Amendment is important in that it provided citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States, including former enslaved people, and promised all citizens "equal protection of the laws."
<h3>What other significance did the 14th Amendment have?</h3>
It was one of three amendments approved during the Reconstruction period to abolish slavery and create civil and legal rights for African Americans, and it would serve as the foundation for many historic Supreme Court judgments over the years.
Later sections of the 14th Amendment authorized the federal government to punish states that violated or abridged their citizens' right to vote by reducing the states' representation in Congress proportionally, and mandated that anyone who "engaged in insurrection" against the United States could not hold civil, military, or elected office (without the approval of two-thirds of the states).
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