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The Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution,
ratified in 1868, prohibits state governments from denying citizens the
equal protection of the laws. Although precisely what the framers of
the amendment meant by this equal protection clause remains unclear,
all interpreters agree that the framers immediate objective was to
provide a constitutional warrant for the Civil Rights Act of 1866,
which guaranteed the citizenship of all persons born in the United
States and subject to United States jurisdiction. This declaration,
which was echoed in the text of the Fourteenth Amendment, was
designed primarily to counter the Supreme Courts ruling in Dred
Scott v. Sandford that Black people in the United States could be
denied citizenship. The act was vetoed by President Andrew Johnson,
who argued that the Thirteenth Amendment, which abolished slavery,
did not provide Congress with the authority to extend citizenship and
equal protection to the freed slaves.
Although Congress promptly overrode Johnsons veto, supporters
of the act sought to ensure its constitutional foundations with the
passage of the Fourteenth Amendment.
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1. The author implies that the Fourteenth Amendment might not
have been enacted if
○Congress authority with regard to legislating civil rights had not
been challenged
○the framers had anticipated the Supreme Courts ruling in Brown v.
Board of Education
○the framers had believed that it would be used in deciding cases of
discrimination involving non-racial groups
○most state governments had been willing to protect citizens civil
rights
○its essential elements had not been implicit in the Thirteenth
Amendment
2. In the context in which it appears, overro
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