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The amendment provides a broad definition of citizenship giving slaves and their descendants Constitutional rights. ChaCha on!
The 14th amendment was designed to grant citizenship to and protect the civil liberties of recently freed slaves.
All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United(MORE?)
The Fourteenth Amendment is one of the post-Civil War Reconstruction Amendments, intended to secure the rights of former slaves.