July 28 in Victorian History
What the Victorians were up to on this date, year by remarkable year.
1868
The Fourteenth Amendment is ratified
The United States adopts the Fourteenth Amendment: all persons born or naturalized in the country are citizens, and no state may deprive any person of life, liberty, or property without due process, nor deny equal protection of the laws. Written to secure the rights of formerly enslaved people after the Civil War, its few sentences become the foundation of modern American civil-rights law.