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Is the Fourteenth Amendment a New Amendment to the Constitution?
When the fourteenth amendment was originally ratified, there were a few theories that kind of percolated to and through the supreme court about what the privileges and immunity clause meant. Over the course of american history since this time, the specific clause at issue has more or less become pretty obsolete, almost kind of written out of the amendment. And i also think it's like this early example of the supreme court immediately starting to hollow out theFourteenth Amendment.