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What were the legal methods employed by southern states to evade the 14th amendment?
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∙ 12y ago
A big one was the Jim Crow Laws, separate but equal. This in theory did not remove the rights to due process to colored people, or deprive them of their rights for life liberty and property.
Obviously in practice it did, and was over turned by the supreme court.
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What states refused to ratify the 14 amendment?
All of the Southern states, but Tennessee.
Why did Johnson urge the southern states to reject the Fourteenth Amendment?
Johnson felt the Amendment was unconstitutional. He wanted the southerners to rely on him to trounce the republicans in the next election.
Does the First Amendment apply to the States?
The First Amendment does not directly apply to the states; however, the courts have ruled that the states are obligated to submit to the First Amendment because of the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment.
What amendment states that you have the right to a jury?
A 5th amendment
What amendment freed the slaves in the United States?
thirteenth amendment
What states refused to ratify the 14 amendment?
All of the Southern states, but Tennessee.
Who disaproved of the 13th Amendment?
Southern states and slave holders.
What amendment prohibited the southern states from paying former slave owners for the loss their slaves?
Amendment 14 prohibited the Southern states from paying former slave owners for the loss of their slaves.
Which amendment prohibited the southern states from paying former's slave owners for the loss of their slaves?
Amendment 14 prohibited the Southern states from paying former slave owners for the loss of their slaves.
What amendment prohibited the southern states from paying former slave owners for the loss of their slaves?
Amendment 14 prohibited the Southern states from paying former slave owners for the loss of their slaves.
Which amendment prohibited the southern states from paying former slave owners for the loss of their slaves?
Amendment 14 prohibited the Southern states from paying former slave owners for the loss of their slaves.
What did radical republicans want from the southern states before they could rejoin the union?
The Southern States were to organise conventions which had to amend their own constitutions so as to conform them with the Constitution of the United States, including the incorporation of the Fourteenth Amendment.
What did southern states want and why?
The South wanted exactly what the Tenth Amendment promised, self determination for the individual states.
'what was the significance of the fourteenth amendment and why did president Johnson advise southern states not to adopt it'?
The 14th amendment states that all citizens of America have the right to due process, regardless of race or any other reason. President Johnson advised Southern states to oppose it because he deemed it unconstitutional.
The 14th amendment to the Constitution was ratified following which war?
The states in the Southern United States did not vote to ratify the amendment because it provided equal protection for allcitizens of the United States-including those who were former slaves. The Fourteenth Amendment was ratified right after theCivil War.
Ratification can occur by one of two methods which one has only been used once?
Ratification by state convention has been used but one time as established by Article V of the United States Constitution. State ratification was employed for ratification of the 21st Amendment in 1933..
What was the result of the amendment process?
fifteenth amendment - section 1 answer- southern states passed laws to make it more difficult for African Americans to vote
