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The Fourth Amendment

Emilia Hughes avatar Emilia Hughes
21 August 2022
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Read the excerpt from the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution. The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article. This Fourteenth Amendment clause means that
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Congress has the authority to make laws to apply the amendment.
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After the Civil War, the federal government began to extend civil rights to African Americans by
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passing amendments to the Constitution.
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Read the excerpt from the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall [take away] the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States. This Fourteenth Amendment clause is about
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equal protection under the law
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In 1868, what was the most important reason to include the equal protection clause in the Fourteenth Amendment?
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African Americans were not protected under the law.
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In order to extend the civil rights of slaves after the Civil War, the United States
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banned slavery with the Thirteenth Amendment and created new protections with the Fourteenth Amendment.
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The Fourteenth Amendment made the Constitution superior to state law because
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the First Amendment applied to state law through incorporation.
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Why were some framers in favor of incorporating the Bill of Rights?
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because then the Bill of Rights would cover both state and federal law
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The practice of selective incorporation means that the Bill of Rights will
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sometimes be applied to the states by the court.