BETTER LATE THAN NEVER--Sen. Mark Mallory, D-Cincinnati, speaks in favor of his sponsored Resolution providing for the ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution - guarenteeing equal protection and due process to all persons born or naturalized in the United States - at the Ohio Statehouse, in Columbus, Ohio, on Tueaday, Feb. 25, 2003. The General Assembly previously ratified the amendment in 1867, but in 1868 voted to withdraw Ohiošs ratification. (Jack Kustron/Photoj.com)