The Fourteenth Amendment — The Answer After the War · Sitting 2
The Load-Bearing Sentence
Teach Section 1 as a restraint on states with four clauses. Speeches are evidence. Doctrine is afterlife. Do not pick a caucus.
- 32 min
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- Adult
Parent briefing · 5 minutes, before they sit
Bingham and Howard. Slaughter-House. Incorporation. Procedure vs substance. State action. Color-blind vs anti-subordination is sitting 5 and 7.4 — do not finish it here.
Hard edges
- Do not recruit Section 1 to a modern party.
- Writing the sentence is not keeping it.
If they say
- “The 14th is equal protection.”
- Four clauses. Say all four.
Objective
The parent can keep parchment, 1866 floor, and later docket in three piles without collapsing them.
Three piles
Parchment: four clauses, states, person/citizen. Floor: Bingham's inborn rights of every person; Howard's first eight amendments. Docket: Slaughter-House, incorporation, Lochner through Dobbs, Plessy through Brown and SFFA. Students remember the docket as the sentence. Put the sentence back.
Big idea
Section 1 is four clauses aimed at the states. Everything else is argument about those words.
Try this~30 min total
Three piles
30 min- Label parchment / 1866 speeches / later cases. Put one fact in each.
- Write the parent reply when a child says the 14th is equal protection.
Lesson guide
Ask after you try
After the reading.
- Ask the model for Section 1. Compare to Archives. Fail missing clauses.
- Four clauses.
- States.
- Speeches are not the amendment.
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When a Court opinion quotes Section 1, is it reading the sentence or borrowing a famous clause — and how would you tell?
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