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The Dred Scott decision stated that people of African decent imported to America were not citizens and not protected by the Constitution. The fourteenth and fifteenth amendments nullified that decision.
The Dred Scott decision stated that people of African decent imported to America were not citizens and not protected by the Constitution. The fourteenth and fifteenth amendments nullified that decision.
The bill of rights are the first 10 amendments to the Constitution. There were added because the Constitution did not contain them explicitly.
because all of them were rights that went with the constitution.
The power to control Intrastate commerce is reserved to the states and the people. It is protected under the Ninth and Tenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution.
The first amendment protects the five rights of speech, religion, press, assembly and petition.
They wanted to be sure that basic rights were protected by the constitution and that there would be a method to insure that there wouldn't be a king.
Amendments are freedoms protected by law.
A committee of Congressmen wrote final versions of twelve amendments, including ten that protected citizen's rights. Congress approved the amendments and proposed them to the states in September of 1789.
Originally Congress passed the first amendments to the Constitution (i.e. the Bill of Rights) because of promises made during the ratification of the Constitution by the states. Several state ratification conventions only voted to approve the constitution on the condition that the new Congress would take up a Bill of Rights as its first action in order to ensure that American rights were protected.
The final two amendments in the Bill of Rights are the Ninth Amendment, which ensures that the rights not specifically mentioned in the Constitution are still protected, and the Tenth Amendment, which reserves powers not delegated to the federal government to the states or the people. These amendments were included to clarify the relationship between the federal government and the states, as well as to emphasize that individual rights are not limited to those explicitly listed in the Constitution.
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