The Fourteenth Amendment Answers

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

The enforcement clause of the Fourteenth Amendment states that Congress has the authority to

After the Civil War, the federal government began to extend civil rights to African Americans by

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.

In the case Gitlow v. New York, Gitlow argued

The citizenship clause of the Fourteenth Amendment says a naturalized person

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

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.

Which amendment resulted in the incorporation of the Bill of Rights?

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.