Discuss the significance of the 14th amendment and the gitlow v. new york in terms of civil liberties and civil rights

The 14th Amendment was approved by the Congress in 1866 and ratified in 1868. It was issued after the American Civil War to protect the rights of former slaves. It stablishes that all who are born in the United States, no matter race and color, are citizens and in consequence they have the rights of citizenship. The rights of life, liberty and property were guaranteed among others.

The Gitlow v. New York case was held in 1925 in the U.S Supreme Court. The latter ruled that the First Amendment, which states the Federal Goverment can't prohibit the free exercise of religion or abridging the freedom of speech and press, among other things, applied also to State goverments. Therefore, the 14th Amendment's due process clause has to be held by the Federal and State goverments in the same standards in regulating speech.

The 14th Amendment made every man and woman equal under the law, despite their color or race. It granted liberty and civil rights to all american people. The Gitlow v. New York case made every state to protect and regulate the freedom of speech and press.

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the earth’s crust is broken into separate pieces called tectonic plates (fig. 7.14). recall that the crust is the solid, rocky, outer shell of the planet. it is composed of two distinctly different types of material: the less-dense continental crust and the more-dense oceanic crust. both types of crust rest atop solid, upper mantle material. the upper mantle, in turn, floats on a denser layer of lower mantle that is much like thick molten tar.

each tectonic plate is free-floating and can move independently. earthquakes and volcanoes are the direct result of the movement of tectonic plates at fault lines. the term fault is used to describe the boundary between tectonic plates. most of the earthquakes and volcanoes around the pacific ocean basin—a pattern known as the “ring of fire”—are due to the movement of tectonic plates in this region. other observable results of short-term plate movement include the gradual widening of the great rift lakes in eastern africa and the rising of the himalayan mountain range. the motion of plates can be described in four general patterns:

collision: when two continental plates are shoved together

subduction: when one plate plunges beneath another (fig. 7.15)

spreading: when two plates are pushed apart (fig. 7.15)

transform faulting: when two plates slide past each other (fig. 7.15)