What if we had Fourteenth Amendment people?
In America, we have First Amendment people who defend freedom to speak, and Second Amendment people who defend the right to bear arms. And yet the amendment with the most expansive promise for American democracy—the Fourteenth Amendment—has not yet produced a collective identity or a unifying call to action.
A powerful question came up during a recent PolicyLink webinar on the government’s authority to advance equal protection for all: What would it look like to have a movement of people who proudly identify themselves as defenders of a nation where "We the People" includes all people?
The Fourteenth Amendment has been the engine of nearly every major advancement in the rights and privileges of democracy. It guarantees birthright citizenship, due process, and equal protection of the laws. It is the Fourteenth Amendment that establishes the constitutional baseline for freedom.
Read the latest commentary and tell us: would you call yourself a Fourteenth Amendment person?
