Example sentences for: fourteenth

How can you use “fourteenth” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Not everyone agrees that the equality of all persons represents the moral breakthrough of the Fourteenth Amendment.

  • We will allow ourselves a slight detour to explore these religious ideas and to understand their impact on the theory of equality as it developed under the Fourteenth Amendment.

  • By 1868, we had in place a clause in the Fourteenth Amendment that was unique in American constitutional history: no state could “deprive any person of the equal protection of the laws.”

  • Beliefs in witchcraft were prevalent in Europe during the fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth centuries, and the missionary friars brought these beliefs to the New World.

  • In an alternative version of the postbellum legal order, also based on the value of nationhood, Charles Black stresses the reliance on national citizenship in the first sentence of the Fourteenth Amendment: “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.”


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