Fourteenth Amendment, amendment (1868) to the Constitution of the United States that granted citizenship and equal civil and legal rights to African Americans and slaves who had been emancipated after the American Civil War, including them under the umbrella phrase “all persons born or naturalized in the United States.” In all, the amendment comprises five sections, four of which began in 1866 as separate proposals that stalled in legislative process and were later amalgamated, along with a fifth enforcement section, into a single amendment.
Florence is considered an oligarchy because 75% of its population had no power therefore it was not a Republican or a democracy it was also not a monarchy because it had no king or queen nor was it a dictatorship because it was ruled by more than one person.
