Fourteenth Amendment Quotes

• El propósito que dio origen a la Decimocuarta Enmienda fue la igualdad ante la ley, y la igualdad, no la separación, fue escrita en la ley.

  Robert Bork

  Equality, Law, Purpose

  Robert H. Bork (2009). “The Tempting of America”, p.82, Simon and Schuster

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• As a matter of history, the Fourteenth Amendment was not understood to ban segregation on the basis of race.

  Cass Sunstein

  Race, Matter, Corny

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• No patent medicine was ever put to wider and more varied use than the Fourteenth Amendment.

  William O. Douglas

  Medicine, Patents, Use

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• I believe that nothing enjoys a higher estate in our society than the right given by the First and Fourteenth Amendments freely to practice and proclaim one's religious convictions.

  Frank Murphy

  Religious, Believe, Practice

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• La Decimocuarta Enmienda, después de la guerra civil, en principio incluyó a los antiguos esclavos en la categoría de personas, teóricamente. Pero si nos fijamos en la realidad, casi todos los casos presentados por derechos personales en virtud de la Decimocuarta Enmienda fueron por corporaciones. Los esclavos liberados no pudieron hacerlo. De hecho, un pacto entre el Norte y el Sur les obligó a volver a una situación parecida a la esclavitud, lo que permitió a los antiguos estados esclavistas criminalizar la vida de los negros, convirtiéndolos en una fuerza criminal que se utilizó básicamente como mano de obra forzada hasta la década de 1930.

  Noam Chomsky

  Guerra, mano de obra, derechos

  Entrevista con Jegan Vincent de Paul, chomsky.info. 15 de agosto de 2012.

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• Marriage is not defined in the federal Constitution at all; it's a matter for the states. And applying the Fourteenth Amendment to the equality of men and women and their relationship in marriage is totally different than redefining marriage. Here is the overreach of the judiciary. This, if allowed to stand without any congressional approval, without any kind of enabling legislation, is what Jefferson warned us about. That's judicial tyranny.

  Mike Huckabee

  Men, Different, Enabling

  "This Week" with George Stephanopoulos, abcnews.go.com. September 6, 2015.

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• A lot of people are talking about defunding planned parenthood, as if that's a huge game changer. I think it's time to do something even more bold. I think the next president ought to invoke the Fifth, and Fourteenth Amendments to the constitution now that we clearly know that that baby inside the mother's womb is a person at the moment of conception.

  Mike Huckabee

  Madre, Bebé, Pensar

  Mike Huckabee en el debate de las primarias del Partido Republicano en el Quicken Loans Arena de Cleveland, Ohio, www.washingtonpost.com. 6 de agosto de 2015.

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• The First Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment rights in the United States Constitution were being violated in Albany again and again - freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, the equal protection of the laws - I could count at least 30 such violations. Yet the president, sworn to uphold the Constitution, and all the agencies of the United States government at his disposal, were nowhere to be seen.

  Howard Zinn

  Agency, Rights, Government

  "You Can't Be Neutral on A Moving Train". Book by Howard Zinn (Ch. 4: "My Name is Freedom": Albany, Georgia), 1994.

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• La ampliación del orden económico que llegó a asentarse en el propietario individual... dramatizada por la compra del Territorio de Luisiana por Jefferson... "La supremacía del poder económico corporativo... consolidada por la decisión del Tribunal Supremo de 1886 que declaró que la Decimocuarta Enmienda protegía a la corporación... [el New Deal, dando lugar a], dentro de la arena política, así como en el propio mundo corporativo, centros de poder en competencia que desafiaban a los de los directores corporativos.

  C. Wright Mills

  Orden, Decisión, Política

  "La élite del poder". Libro de C. Wright Mills, 1956.

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• The First and Fourteenth Amendments say that Congress and the States shall make "no law" which abridges freedom of speech or of the press. In order to sanction a system of censorship I would have to say that "no law" does not mean what it says, that "no law" is qualified to mean "some" laws. I cannot take this step.

  William O. Douglas

  Maldad, Orden, Ley

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• No cabe duda de que, en virtud de la Enmienda sobre la Igualdad de Derechos, a veces habrá debates, a veces indecisión, a veces litigios. ¿Ha propuesto alguien que rescindamos la Primera Enmienda sobre la libertad de expresión porque hay demasiados litigios al respecto? ¿Alguien ha sugerido lo mismo para la Decimocuarta Enmienda? Supongo que nunca ha habido una enmienda constitucional con tantos litigios.

  Frances Farenthold

  Derechos, Democracia, Discurso

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• The Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States was enacted in 1865 by martial law. The Fourteenth Amendment was enacted in 1868 by martial law. The Fifteenth Amendment was enacted in 1870 by martial law. Military occupation of the Southern states did not end until 1877, twelve years after the end of the Civil War.

  Eustace Mullins

  Military, War, Years

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