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“The 14th Amendment said that anyone born in the United States was a citizen,” says Ross Hetrick, president of the Thaddeus Stevens Society, based in Stevens’ previous home base of Gettysburg.

The 14th Amendment became part of the U.S. Constitution in 1868, following the Civil War, and granted citizenship and freedoms outlined in the Bill of Rights to formerly enslaved people.