What is the 14th amendment in simple terms?
By the middle of the 20th Century, almost every amendment in the bill of rights had been incorporated against the states. The exceptions are the 3rd Amendment, which prohibits the government from quartering troops in private residences (but that amendment hasn’t been relevant since the Civil War), the 2nd Amendment right to bear arms (though the Supreme Court did just recently hold that this amendment does confer an individual right to own guns for self-defense, and it’s very possible that it could be incorporated in the next few years), the 5th Amendment’s requirement of indictment by grand jury for felonies, the 7th Amendment right to a jury trial in civil cases, and the 8th Amendment’s protection against excessive bail.
