The Fourteenth Amendment overturned the Dred Scott decision.
Fourteenth Amendment = 1868 amendment to the US Constitution extending federal constitutional protections to cover state law as well
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Note: Article I, section 2, of the Constitution was modified by section 2 of the 14th amendment.†
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United States 'Founding Fathers', The Constitution of the United States, 1787
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But even if she had, Hagar, at least, lived long enough for the Fourteenth Amendment to free her.†
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Octavia Butler, Kindred, 1979
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In 1872 he was elected to Congress, and his petition for a pardon from the disabilities imposed on all Confederate officials by the Fourteenth Amendment was granted.†
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John F. Kennedy, Profiles in Courage, 1955
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the Fourteenth Amendment gave the ex-Negros citizenship.
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Richard Lederer, A Brief History of the World, 1917