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At its inception, the Fourteenth Amendment protected the newly emancipated slaves. The earlier Dred Scott decision had held that citizenship was based on state, not federal law. The 14th Amendment changed that. Southern states could no longer keep their laws denying freed slaves their citizenship rights because now those laws were unconstitutional and of no effect..
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Whose rights was the Fourteenth Amendment designed to protect?
(newly freed slaves)
Whose voting rights are protected by the Nineteenth Amendment?
WomenWomen
Whose rights does Copyright protect?
Predominantly, creators.
Whose rights are protected by copyright law?
Copyright law is designed to ascribe exclusive rights to the creator of a work.
Whose rights does the constitution and Bill of Rights protect?
Individual citizens from the power of the federal government and state government.
The founders of the US believed that an important purpose of government was to protect whose rights?
the individuals
Whose job is it to protect the rights of the Bill of Rights?
The Bill of Rights is protected by the Judicial Branch.
Whose rights come first when there is a conflict between an individual rights and the rights of the community?
what our rights are and what can and can't do!
Whose rights are guaranteed by the US Bill of Rights?
U.s. Citizens
Who proposed the 19th amendment and during whose presidency?
Woodrow Wilson
Whose rights are guranteed by the constitution and the bill of rights?
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Whose the right are guaranteed by the Bill of Rights?
The rights of persons within the United States of America are guaranteed (recognized) primarily by the first 10 Amendments to the US Constitution, collectively known as the "Bill of Rights." However, the entire Constitution as a whole, including the Amendments following the Bill of Rights, protect persons within the United States of America.
