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CRS and Annotated
* CRS Annotated Constitution: Article 2
* CRS Annotated Constitution: Article 3, law. cornell. edu
* CRS Annotated Constitution: Article 4
* CRS Annotated Constitution: Article 5
* CRS Annotated Constitution: Article 6
* CRS Annotated Constitution: Third Amendment
* CRS Annotated Constitution: Fourth Amendment, Cornell University
* CRS Annotated Constitution: Sixth Amendment
* CRS Annotated Constitution: Seventh Amendment
* " CRS Annotated Constitution: 9th Amendment " by the Congressional Research Service ( 2000 )
* CRS Annotated Constitution: Eleventh Amendment
* CRS Annotated Constitution: Twelfth Amendment, via Cornell Law School
* CRS Annotated Constitution: Thirteenth Amendment
* CRS Annotated Constitution: Fifteenth Amendment
* CRS Annotated Constitution: Sixteenth Amendment
* CRS Annotated Constitution: 18th Amendment
* CRS Annotated Constitution: Twentieth Amendment
* CRS Annotated Constitution: Twenty first Amendment
* CRS Annotated Constitution: Twenty-second Amendment
* CRS Annotated Constitution: Twenty-fifth Amendment
* CRS Annotated Constitution: Twenty-sixth Amendment

Annotated and Constitution
* Analysis and Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States: Annotated constitution, with descriptions of important cases ( official publication of U. S. Senate )
* Annotated Constitution by the Congressional Research Service of the U. S. Library of Congress ( hyperlinked version published by Cornell University )
* Cornell Law School – Annotated Constitution

Constitution and Fourteenth
* 1905 – The Supreme Court of the United States decides Lochner v. New York which holds that the " right to free contract " is implicit in the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution.
' In contemporary literature, scholars refer to the anticaste principle and various forms of racial and non-racial caste systems, particularly in the context of the Fourteenth Amendment of the American Constitution.
In the United States punitive damages awards are subject to the limitations imposed by the due process of law clauses of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution.
The Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments of the United States Constitution limit the power of the federal and state governments to discriminate.
* Under Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment, no person who swore an oath to support the Constitution, and later rebelled against the United States, can become president.
The Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution preserve the due process rights of individuals.
At a federal level, racial profiling is challenged by both the Fourth Amendment of the U. S. Constitution which guarantees the right to be safe from search and seizure without a warrant ( which is to be issued " upon probable cause "), and the Fourteenth Amendment which requires that all citizens be treated equally under the law.
With the passage of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments, the power of the federal government to safeguard these rights was added to the Constitution, and this interpretation of Section Four became moot.
The validity of a ratification that a state first grants and then later purports to rescind, and of the subsequent ratification of an amendment which that state previously rejected and then later assented to, was addressed by Congress in 1868 when Secretary of State William H. Seward issued a proclamation that what we know today as the Fourteenth Amendment was properly ratified and a part of the Constitution.
* Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
The Fourteenth Amendment ( Amendment XIV ) to the United States Constitution was adopted on July 9, 1868, as one of the Reconstruction Amendments.
The Civil Rights Act of 1866 had already granted U. S. citizenship to all persons born in the United States, as long as those persons were not subject to a foreign power ; the framers of the Fourteenth Amendment added this principle into the Constitution to prevent the Supreme Court from ruling the Civil Rights Act of 1866 to be unconstitutional for lack of congressional authority to enact such a law and to prevent a future Congress from altering it by a mere majority vote.
Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
Additionally, Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment denies eligibility for any federal office to anyone who, having sworn an oath to support the United States Constitution, later has rebelled against the United States.
** In a national referendum related to abortion, voters in Ireland reject the proposed Twelfth Amendment of the Constitution Bill, 1992 ( Ireland ) but approve the Thirteenth Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland and the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland.
On June 28, 2010, the US Supreme Court held, in a 5 – 4 decision in McDonald v. Chicago, that the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution was incorporated under the Fourteenth Amendment, thus protecting the right of an individual to " keep and bear arms " from local governments, and all but declared Mayor Jane Byrne's 1982 handgun ban unconstitutional.
The Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution each contain a Due Process Clause.
Both Article III of the U. S. Constitution and the Sixth Amendment require that criminal cases be tried by a jury, and the Fourteenth Amendment applies this mandate to the states.
* Equal Protection Clause, part of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
In response to judges and juries which award high punitive damages verdicts, the Supreme Court of the United States has made several decisions which limit awards of punitive damages through the due process of law clauses of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution.
In Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad, 118 U. S. 394 ( 1886 ), the reporter noted in the headnote to the opinion that the Chief Justice began oral argument by stating, " The court does not wish to hear argument on the question whether the provision in the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution, which forbids a State to deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws, applies to these corporations.
Whatever the merits of Hartmann's theory about the Santa Clara County case, in numerous cases since the Court has reiterated that corporations are protected in many activities by the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution.

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