The Fourteenth Amendment is basically about issues that need to be resolved during the Civil War. The people were wondering how to treat blacks that used to be slaves and how they will be represented. So, Section One in the Fourteenth Amendment was to protect the rights of the just freed blacks. Section Two is about the number of representatives and a states representation. This section canceled out the Three-Fifths Compromise in Article One. Section Three in the Fourteenth Amendment is dealing with the fact that anyone who rebelled against the country in the Civil War, cannot run, or be, involved in any national or state governments. Government Debt, Section Four, talks about during the Civil War, the United States paid all of the union debts, but any confederate debts had to be paid from the states that rebelled, otherwise known as the confederate states. Therefore, the Confederate states, such as Georgia, cannot use the public money. Section Five, which is Enforcement, says that Congress can pass laws to carry out this amendment.
