The U.S. Supreme Court first reviewed the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in the Slaughter-House Cases, 83 U.S. 36 (1873). In a 5-4 decision, the majority adopted a narrow construction of the Amendment’s Privileges and Immunities Clause, which limited its application to the rights of United States citizenship rather than that of the states. … Continue reading The Fourteenth Amendment and the Slaughterhouse Cases