The Fourteenth Amendment

Question 1

One way the Fourteenth Amendment shows that the Constitution is superior to state law is

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the Fourteenth Amendment applied to state law through incorporation.

Question 2

Look at the political cartoon.

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protecting freed African Americans.

Question 3

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.

Question 4

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.

Question 5

Why did the Supreme Court expand the incorporation of the Bill of Rights?

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to ensure equal treatment for all citizens

Question 6

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.

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Congress has the authority to make laws to apply the amendment.

Question 7

Read the excerpt from the First Amendment of the United States Constitution.Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.

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federal law only.

Question 8

Read the excerpt from the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution.[N]or shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.

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all states follow similar rules and legal processes.

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