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fourteenth amendment — noun due process of law, legal fairness, legal safeguards, protection against deprivations, protection guarantees, protection of deprivation of accepted legal principles associated concepts: procedural due process, right to confront accuser,… … Law dictionary
Fourteenth Amendment — noun an amendment to the Constitution of the United States adopted in 1868; extends the guarantees of the Bill of Rights to the states as well as to the federal government • Topics: ↑law, ↑jurisprudence • Instance Hypernyms: ↑amendment • Part… … Useful english dictionary
Fourteenth Amendment — The Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States, ratified in 1868, creates or at least recognizes for the first time a citizenship of the United States, as distinct from that of the states; forbids the making or enforcement by… … Black's law dictionary
Fourteenth Amendment — The Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States, ratified in 1868, creates or at least recognizes for the first time a citizenship of the United States, as distinct from that of the states; forbids the making or enforcement by… … Black's law dictionary
Fourteenth Amendment — Fourteenth A|mend|ment, the a part of the US ↑Constitution which gave former ↑slaves the right to be US citizens. It gives all citizens the right to be protected by the law … Dictionary of contemporary English
Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution — United States of America … Wikipedia
Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland — The Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland specified that the prohibition of abortion would not limit the right to distribute information about abortion services in foreign countries. It was effected by the Fourteenth Amendment of… … Wikipedia
Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of Pakistan — The Constitution (Fourteenth Amendment) Act, 1997 was an amendment to the Constitution of Pakistan passed in 1997, during the government of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, leader of the Pakistan Muslim League party. It subjected Members of… … Wikipedia
Fourteenth Amendment — an amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1868, defining national citizenship and forbidding the states to restrict the basic rights of citizens or other persons. * * * … Universalium
Fourteenth Amendment — The amendment to the Constitution of the United States which extends citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, and contains the due process and equal protection clauses … Ballentine's law dictionary
