The excerpt belongs to the text of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, where the requirements to be considered a citizen of the United States and the rights that these have within the nation and in each of the states that the make up. Thus, it defines the citizen as any person born in the United States (without making any distinction regarding race or sexuality, thus guaranteeing the right to equality of persons) or naturalized in the country. The historical significance of this amendment was that it guaranteed citizenship for African American people.
