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This Day in Legal History: The Fourteenth Amendment Is Ratified
On July 9, 1868, South Carolina and Louisiana became the final two states needed to push the Fourteenth Amendment over the three-quarters threshold, and with their votes the amendment was ratified into the Constitution. It is, by almost any measure, the most consequential of the Reconstruction amendments and arguably the most important addition to the Constitution since the Bill of Rights.
The amendment was written to answer the central question left open by the Civil War and the abolition of slavery: what did freedom actually…
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