14th Amendment helped shape today’s society
The 14th Amendment is probably one of the most important amendments in the Constitution. This is because it helped to shape today’s society.
First, if it weren’t for its establishment, who knows how different things might be today for African-Americans. Due to the establishment of the 14th Amendment, the African-American people were able to receive the rights that they deserved and worked so hard to achieve. Thurgood Marshall might not have become the first African-American Supreme Court justice, Barack Obama might not have been able to become the first African-American president, and you might not be working with some of your friends or co-workers.
The 14th Amendment didn’t just help the African-American people in their work toward equality. It helped everyone. Whether Americans were of another race, gender, religion, sexual persuasion, or subject to discrimination in some other way, the 14th Amendment helped to allow them to receive equal rights.
Before the 14th Amendment was established, the U.S. primarily followed the Bill of Rights, which protected the people from the government. But the 14th Amendment gave the people a way to protect themselves from the states and it caused people to begin to wonder how the 14th Amendment, along with all of the other ones, should really be interpreted.
The 14th Amendment helped to shape American society. Due to this, it is one of most important amendments.
Keister is in the 10th grade at Trinity High School. This essay won first place in a Law Day contest sponsored by Washington County Bar Association. Law Day is Monday and commemorates the importance of law in society and its role in our country.