dealing with ratification issues, this particular question has never been adjudicated. On October 16, 1868, three months after the amendment was ratified and part of the Constitution, Oregon rescinded its ratification bringing the number of states that had the amendment actively ratified to 27 (for nearly a year), but this had no actual impact on the US Constitution or the 14th Amendment's standing. The Fourteenth Amendment was subsequently ratified: Since Ohio and New Jersey re-ratified the Fourteenth Amendment in 2003, all U.S. states that existed during Reconstruction have ratified the amendment. See also Jus soli United States constitutional criminal procedure United States labor law Notes References Bibliography Preview. Preview. Pdf. PDF. Further reading Pdf. See also: Symposium: the Maryland Constitutional Law Schmooze special issue of the Maryland Law Review. Pdf. Response to McConnell: Response to Klarman: External links (PDF, providing text of amendment and dates of ratification) CRS Annotated Constitution: Fourteenth Amendment Fourteenth Amendment and related resources at the Library of Congress Congressional Debates of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, provides a transcript of the debates in Congress. Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution 1868 in American politics Aftermath of the American Civil War Amendments to the United States Constitution Police legislation History of civil rights in the United States Reconstruction Era United States Fourteenth Amendment case law July 1868 events