The 14th Amendment few people seem to care about (but they should).

14th Amendment, ratified 150 years ago today. The biggest step America has ever taken towards a more perfect union. Sweeping protections for individual rights so broad and all-encompassing, that we're still working through the implications and struggling to live up to its promises a century and a half later. And every time we need it, as we often do, we have it right there in black and white: "any person" means all of us, without exception, even in ways beyond the wildest imaginations of its authors in 1868. Because in his genius, John Bingham didn't give us an exhaustive list of particulars... he gave us a set of rock-solid foundational principles, ready and eager to be applied to new contexts and new persons.

The Declaration of Independence talked of universal, inalienable rights, but it was the Fourteenth Amendment that made individual rights the supreme law of the land, and that's something worth celebrating every bit as much as the day we just marked with fireworks and parades.