Library / English Dictionary |
FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT
Pronunciation (US): | (GB): |
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
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
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Instance hypernyms:
amendment (a statement that is added to or revises or improves a proposal or document (a bill or constitution etc.))
Domain category:
jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)
Holonyms ("Fourteenth Amendment" is a part of...):
Constitution; Constitution of the United States; U.S. Constitution; United States Constitution; US Constitution (the constitution written at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in 1787 and subsequently ratified by the original thirteen states)