The Fourteenth Amendment

Question 1

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 2

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 3

What was the Supreme Court’s decision in Barron v. Baltimore in 1833?

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The Bill of Rights did not apply at the state level.

Question 4

Look at the political cartoon.

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protecting freed African Americans.

Question 5

Why were some members of Congress in favor of incorporating the Bill of Rights with regard to the Fourteenth Amendment?

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the Bill of Rights would cover both state and federal laws

Question 6

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.

Question 7

Why was the Supreme Court’s ruling important in Gitlow v. New York with respect to due process?

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because Gitlow's legal rights were used to interpret the issue of incorporation

Question 8

The citizenship clause of the Fourteenth Amendment says a naturalized person

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is a citizen, just like someone who was born in the United States.

Question 9

most

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African Americans were not protected under the law.

Question 10

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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