Section 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.
Section 2. Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed. But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the Executive and Judicial officers of a State, or the members of the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State, being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion, or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such State.
Section 3. No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may, by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.
Section 4. The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned. But neither the United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or any claim for the loss or emancipation of any slave; but all such debts, obligations and claims shall be held illegal and void.
Section 5. The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article

This amendment is meant to outline specifically that all that are born in the United States are citizens of the U.S. and therefore regain the rights drawn out by this constitution and that no rights can be taken away from them by the state, country, or any other person. It also outlines the manner in which the House of Representatives are to be elected. In section 2, the age of 21 is given for a man to be able to vote and completely retain his rights and if any should try and take those rights away, especially during voting season. No one can gain office in any branch if commited treason or any federal crime needing captial punishment. The amount nor the preface of debt in the United States cannot be questioned or gone against. None shall receive any taxation or money gained in debt or lost in profit from the holding of slaves and the overall mention of the 13th amendment. If said debts are acrued, they are illegal. By this law, Congress has this power.

I agree with this gentleman on his opinion on Hate Crimes not being given equal protection under the law. These crimes: murder, assault, rape, etc. are more than often not even second glanced because the racism that I've talked about before in previous posts is never going to go away. I'll admit, as anyone should that I myself have a bit of judgement and racism but to quote a favorite Broadway Production-"Avenue Q"..."Everyone's a little bit racist." I don't necessarily find that a bad thing until they become what hate crimes are, as much of a federal crime that deserves captial punishment as any others listed because they are taking away all rights given to each US citizen regardless of race sex color religion etc. The hate crimes often go unnoticed in media or daily lives because it happens so often that it isn't news anymore. It is simply a sad understanding that those that believe racism and hate fall hand in hand and take it upon themselves to use that hate to destroy what is different and that is not OK.



I gotta say, I love Anderson Cooper. "People have babies, let them have babies." I do not agree with the Senator (besides his atrocious shirt choice for television) the 14th Amendment only applied to African Americans, no other race or colored person. A crime to remain illegally in this country. That doesn't make the illegal a citizen, however because that pursuit of life liberty and the pursuit of happiness, most allow that pursuit to happen because they understand that the illegal immigrants are not doing anything (usually) that infringes on their constitutional rights. However, I still don't think that the 14th amendment applies those citizenship rights to any illegals because they are technically not US citizens. And if that is the only case, then why are there tests that one can take to become a US citizen. Does that lessen the constitutional rights given to them? Is it the same? Is it seen as a pass over on the "born in" the US. That pursuit of happiness is what draws people to America, the melting pot metaphor that this country was exacted upon.  "The 14th Amendment is in the Constitution. It can't be unconstitutional." *Snicker* "You're on a political standpoint" Hm. Almost like it is a political matter.