14TH AMENDMENT

RATIFICATION

• The fourteenth amendment was ratified July 9, 1868
• The fourteenth amendment granted citizenship to "all persons born or naturalized in the United States, included former slaves that were recently freed after the civil war".

ORIGINS OR REASONS

• The fourteenth came about when African Americans became emancipated after the civil war

SUPREME COURT CASE

• In re Gault
• Boy was accused of making inappropriate phone calls to his neighbors and sentenced to six years in a juvenile detention center until he turned 21.
• Why?
• "Juveniles facing an adjudication of delinquency and incarceration are entitled to certain procedural safeguards under the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment."

HOW DOES IT RELATE

• More customers for businesses
• All people must be treated equally and all laws apply to them