Read the excerpt from the fourteenth amendment of the united states constitution. all persons born or naturalized in the united states . . are citizens of the united states and of the state wherein they reside. the citizenship clause of the fourteenth amendment is important because it

limited the number of people who can become citizens.
gave everyone free passports if they became citizens.
was the first time the constitution defined what a citizen is.
restricted freed enslaved people from becoming citizen

separate but equal was a legal doctrine in united states constitutional law according to which racial segregation did not violate the fourteenth amendment to the united states constitution, which guaranteed "equal protection" under the law to all people. under the doctrine, as long as the facilities provided to each race were equal, state and local governments could require that services, facilities, public accommodations, housing, medical care, education, employment, and transportation be segregated by race, which was already the case throughout the states of the former confederacy. the phrase was derived from a louisiana law of 1890, although the law actually used the phrase "equal but separate

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