Following its ratification by the necessary three-quarters of U.S. states, the Fourteenth Amendment granting citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States—including formerly enslaved people—is officially adopted into the U.S. Constitution. Secretary of State William Seward issued a proclamation certifying the amendment.
And here we are 154 years later with a congress and majority on the Supreme Court just waiting to strip us of those rights. Progress!
(Don’t worry assholes…they may take away our freedoms but they’ll let you keep your guns…for now!)