The Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States ('XIV Amendment') is one of the post-Civil War amendments, and includes, among others, the Due Process Clause and the Equal Protection Clause. It was proposed on June 13, 1866, and ratified on July 9, 1868.
The amendment provides a broad definition of national citizenship, which overrides the decision of Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857), who had excluded slaves and their descendants, from possessing constitutional rights. It requires states to provide equal protection before the law to all persons (not just citizens) within their jurisdictions. The importance of the Fourteenth Amendment was exemplified when it was interpreted to prohibit racial segregation in public schools in the Brown v. Case. Board of Education.
Abraham Lincoln is my answer
The people are in charge of the government
Yes.
We have seen, in history, time and again, literature used as a form of resistance.
Literature has the ability to tell stories that powerful people do not want told. As a result, literature can spread and stories can be told that erode the hold of the powerful.
This was a powerful tool in both Soviet Russia and Nazi Germany.
