Privileges or Immunities Clause

The Privileges or Immunities Clause is Amendment XIV, Section 1, Clause 2 of the United States Constitution. It states:

No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States....

Along with the rest of the Fourteenth Amendment, this clause became part of the Constitution on July 9, 1868.

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