14th Amendment and Load-Bearing Clauses

In our season finale of the Civic Flame, we look at a truly load-bearing amendment. The Fourteenth Amendment includes birthright citizenship, due process, privileges and immunities, equal protection, and more!

We go through the five sections of this game-changer and talk about how the Fourteenth Amendment fundamentally altered US citizenship and why todays' legal civil war is trying to attack it. Let's go!

00:00:55 The Fourteenth Amendment is a big deal

00:01:35 Section 1 of the 14th Amendment and Birthright Citizenship  

00:04:00 Birthright Citizenship and US v Wong Kim Ark

00:06:22 Privileges and Immunities were supposed to be a big deal

00:09:22 Due Process and Equal Protection are for persons not just citizens

00:12:00 The 14th Amendment and the Doctrine of Selective Incorporation

00:14:00 Right to an attorney and civil Gideon 

00:14:12 Section 2 of the 14th Amendment and representation

00:16:40 Section 3 of the 14th Amendment and the Insurrection Clause

00:19:33 We’re in a legal civil war

00:21:00 Section 4 of the 14th Amendment and refusal to pay the confederate traitors

00:24:50 Section 5 of the 14th Amendment and reaffirming Legislative Supremacy

00:26:00 Season one finale!

00:23:00 Thank you!