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U.S. Constitution: Fourteenth Amendment
Fourteenth Amendment - Rights Guaranteed Privileges and Immunities of Citizenship, Due Process and Equal ProtectionSection. 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. Per Findlaw.com
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Whose rights do the constitution an the Bill of Rights guarantee?
The US Constitution protects the rights of the citizens of the US. The Constitution is limited to the federal government but is made applicable to the states by the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protection Clause.
The Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution which ultimately failed to be ratified was intended to provide equal rights for?
women
The guarantee of equal treatment for all people under the law is called?
Civil Rights
What was the main reason that the Constitution did not proclaim that all man were born free and equal in their rights?
Southern states would not approve it.
Why is it important to enshrine the charter in the constitution?
because if everyone were to enshrine those basic rights and freedoms in the constitution it will provide equal protection to everyone.
