fourteenth amendment

1. 1.

   an amendment to the Constitution of the United States adopted in 1868; extends the guarantees of the Bill of Rights to the states as well as to the federal government

   Broaderamendment

   Part ofUnited States Constitution

   law

Questions about fourteenth amendment

What does fourteenth amendment mean?

fourteenth amendment means "an amendment to the Constitution of the United States adopted in 1868; extends the guarantees of the Bill of Rights to the states as well as to the federal government".

Is fourteenth amendment a common word?

fourteenth amendment is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.