Unit 8: The 14th Amendment: Citizenship, Freedom, and Equality

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Why is incorporation an important part of America’s constitutional story?
(Run time: 4:13 minutes)
What is Section 5 of the 14th Amendment?
(Run time: 1:59 minutes)
What is Section 4 of the 14th Amendment?
(Run time: 2:04 minutes)
What is Section 3 of the 14th Amendment?
(Run time: 2:21 minutes)
How does the modern Supreme Court analyze claims of discrimination based on sexual orientation?
Run time: 4:18 minutes)
How does the Supreme Court use the Equal Protection Clause to attack discrimination today?
(Run time: 3:05 minutes)
What are unenumerated rights and what are some of the modern debates over them?
(Run time: 4:52 minutes)
Why have so many immigrants sought out new lives in America? | Fareed Zakaria
(Run time: 3:57 minutes)
Why have so many immigrants sought out new lives in America? | Francis Ford Coppola
(Run time: 1:22 minutes)
Why have so many immigrants sought out new lives in America? | Judge Stephanos Bibas
(Run time: 0:55 minutes)
How does the modern Supreme Court analyze claims of discrimination based on sexual orientation?
(Run time: 6:57 minutes)
How has the Supreme Court addressed 14th Amendment challenges alleging discrimination based on sex?
(Run time: 11:31 minutes)
What did the Supreme Court decide in Loving v. Virginia?
(Run time: 2:46 minutes)

What's the constitutional legacy of Brown v. Board of Education?
(Run time: 3:44 minutes)
What are the modern debates at the Supreme Court over the right privacy, contraception and abortion?
(Run time: 5:47 minutes)
What was Carolene Products Footnote Four?
(Run time: 4:03 minutes)
Why is the 14th Amendment important today?
(Run time: 1:37 minutes)
What is Section 2 of the 14th Amendment?
(Run time: 3:25 minutes)
What is the Privileges or Immunities Clause of the 14th Amendment?
(Run time: 3:02 minutes)
What is the Citizenship Clause of the 14th Amendment?
(Run time: 2:31 minutes)
What role did the Supreme Court play in the collapse of Reconstruction?
(Run time: 6:00 minutes)
What does the 14th Amendment’s Due Process Clause say?
(Run time: 2:35 minutes)
Did the 14th Amendment represent a “Second Founding” for America?
(Run time: 1:51 minutes)
How did the 14th Amendment and the process of incorporation transform the Bill of Rights?
(Run time: 2:29 minutes)
What is the national government’s role in immigration?
(Run time: 2:06 minutes)
What role did African Americans play in the push for equal citizenship rights?
(Run time: 2:15 minutes)

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