What is the 14th amendment article 6

1. What the Fourteenth Amendment actually contains: the core clauses

Section 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment declares that “all persons born or naturalized in the United States” are citizens of the United States and of the state where they reside, forbids states from making laws that abridge the privileges or immunities of U.S. citizens, and prohibits states from depriving any person of life, liberty, or property without due process or denying equal protection of the laws ^{[1] [2]}.

2. How the amendment is structured and why there’s no “Article 6”

The amendment is divided into numbered sections rather than “articles”; standard references and annotated texts treat it as Amendment XIV with multiple sections rather than separate articles, and none of the major institutional sources or legal summaries provided show or label a distinct “Article 6” within the Fourteenth Amendment ^{[4] [5] [6]}. If a speaker or document uses “Article 6” in connection with the Fourteenth Amendment, that is a mislabeling or confusion with Article VI of the Constitution, which is a different provision not part of Amendment XIV; the reporting and primary texts here do not support a Fourteenth Amendment Article 6 ^{[5] [6]}.

3. Key additional sections: apportionment, disqualification, enforcement, and public debt

Beyond Section 1, the Fourteenth Amendment addresses apportionment and penalties for states that deny male citizens the vote in Section 2, disqualifies from federal or state office anyone who, having sworn an oath to support the Constitution, later engages in insurrection or gives aid to its enemies (Section 3), empowers Congress to enforce the amendment by appropriate legislation (Section 5), and bars repayment of Confederate debt while protecting U.S. public debt (Section 4) ^{[7] [3] [8] [4]}.

4. Why the Fourteenth Amendment matters today: incorporation and litigation

The amendment has been the most frequently litigated constitutional provision because the Supreme Court used it to apply many Bill of Rights protections against state and local governments through “selective incorporation,” and its Equal Protection and Due Process Clauses underlie landmark rulings ranging from school desegregation to modern debates over privacy and reproductive rights, as reflected in annotated legal histories and case law discussions ^{[6] [9] [10]}.

5. Section 3’s renewed visibility and contemporary controversy

Section 3’s ban on officeholding by those who engaged in insurrection was largely dormant for a century but has resurfaced in modern litigation and scholarship, including recent court disputes over whether state authorities can enforce that provision against contemporary officeholders accused of insurrectionary conduct; commentators and scholars have debated courts’ authority and the historical scope of Section 3 ^{[9] [11]}.

6. Limits of the available reporting and where confusion arises

The sources supplied consistently present the amendment as Sections 1–5 and do not document an “Article 6” within Amendment XIV; therefore any claim that a Fourteenth Amendment “Article 6” exists is unsupported by these institutional and scholarly references, and the safer reading is that the query reflects a misnomer or conflation with other constitutional provisions ^{[4] [5]}. Where these records leave open questions—such as contested interpretations of the Privileges or Immunities Clause or exact historical intentions of specific framers—scholars diverge and the sources note ongoing debate rather than settled consensus ^{[6] [2]}.