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After abolishing slavery they need an amendment that gave people who were born or naturalized in the U.S. citizenship . and equal protection under the law also people who where ex slaves. -
They had trouble ratifying the 14th Amendment because the southern states didn't want immigrants/slaves to have citizenship or equal protection.
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The greatest supreme court unanimously said that segregation in schools was a violation of the equal protection clause of the fourteenth amendment. -
In Alabama, the electoral districts were not proportional to any other counties. It was questioned if the Fourteenth Amendment equal protection clause was that every district should have one representative per county and create as many senatorial districts as senators. -
Gideon was charged with breaking and entering a pool to steal money from the vending machine. He could not afford a lawyer at court and was expecting one to be appointed to him. This was a violation of his 14th Amendment Due Process clause which is applying the key part of the Bill of Rights saying he should be treated equally until proven guilty. -
Miranda was convicted of rape and assault. He confessed to everything without being read his 5th Amendment rights for being a self-witness. Or his 6th Amendment right, the right to an attorney. He became why we have Miranda rights read to us if convicted of a crime. -
Since Abortion was illegal and restricted in a lot of states. Abortion was banned unless the abortion is going to save the person's life. Roe wanted abortion legal because she could not afford to move to a different state, because abortion was banned in the state of texas. She argued it was going against her "right to privacy", wich was in the 14th amendment -
Bakke sued the University of California for violating Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Fourteenth Amendment Equal Protection clause. He was denied twice at the University even though he had better tests, Gpa, and benchmark scores were higher than some of the people accepted. He believe that it was racially wrong in the quota system. -
Harwick was performing private, consensual sodomy and was arrested for violating the Georga Sodomy Statute. He sued Georgia for the Sodomy Statute violating the constitution. A 5-4 decision was shown that a Gay person would not be protected by the constitution if performing sodomy. In 2003 the case of Larence vs. Texas it was shown that it's the fundamental right of a gay adult to perform private sexual activity.