Which amendment grants citizenship to anyone born in the United States and ensures due process of law?

• A. Amendment 15
• B. Amendment 19
• C. Amendment 13
• D. Amendment 14

Answer: (D)

The Fourteenth Amendment secures both birthright citizenship and due process. It grants citizenship to anyone born or naturalized in the United States, so people born here are citizens regardless of their parents’ status. It also includes the Due Process Clause, which protects fair legal procedures before the government can deprive someone of life, liberty, or property. The other amendments address different issues—voting rights by race (fifteenth), voting rights by sex (nineteenth), and the abolition of slavery (thirteenth)—and do not combine birthright citizenship with due process in the way the Fourteenth Amendment does.