When it was created, the fourteenth amendment to the constitution ensured rights for

Anybody born in the united states before and after the amendment have us citizenship that cannot be taken away. This also applied to previous or current slaves during the time of its enactment.

nothing certain is known about what happened, but it seems that the country declined gradually, perhaps due to bad government, or, more likely, due to a series of bad harvests, which resulted in widespread and recurrent famine.

the roman empire began to fall