The excerpt above is part of the 14th amendment. This amendment was passed in 1868 and was supposed to help protect newly freed slaves. The goal in passing this was to ensure that African-Americans had the same legal rights as white citizens.
This due process clause has been used in several important Supreme Court cases to protect American citizens.
<span>In my point of view if a group of people pillaged a town,they took valuable items from the town.Because if they are good minded people they will ask help from other villagers there is no need to pillage the town.If they are evil minded and more dangerous they decided to settle in the town.</span>
