POLS 1337 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Direct Election, Strict Scrutiny, Grandfather Clause
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The fourteenth amendment to the constitution (1868) granted african. Civil rights means you have a reasonable right to expect the government to protect you from discrimination. Which essentially is the basis for the idea of civil rights. And the 14th amendment reaffirms this in part with the equal protection clause. Supreme court declared that african americans were not citizens of the united states and could not sue in federal courts. Furthermore, this decision declared that the missouri compromise was unconstitutional and that congress did not have the authority to prohibit slavery in the territories. Dredd scott ruling later overturned by 13th and 14th amendments. We celebrate it in texas almost 6 months after on june the 19th. On june 19, 1865, the last enslaved people in the south received word from the us army of the. Emancipation proclamation, which ordered the abolition of slavery in the south.
