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21 Cards in this Set
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amendment 13
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corwin amendment
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would have added and unamendable provision to constitution forbidding congress to outlaw slavery, Lincoln supported it |
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emancipation proclamation |
freed all confederate slaves |
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amendment 14
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equal protection of the laws, former slaves granted citizenship, promised equal protection of the laws, legal equality, cited most in any modern litigation than others, believe its a new constitution |
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amendment 14 section 1
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citizenship, 14th amendment, slaves were now citizens, echoes 4th amendment, state can't abridge privileges and immunities of citizens, state can't deprive any person of life liberty or property w/o due process, identical to fifth amendment, restricts states in this, can't deny equal protection |
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black codes |
regulations of the lives of the freed slaves, no voting, no guns, can't travel |
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incorporation s1
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process by which supreme court has applied the bill of rights to the states through the 14th amendment |
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substantive due process s1
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doctrine that the content of a law must be fair, not just its procedures |
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selective incorporation s1
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process of extending certain "fundamental" rights in the B of R to the states, |
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total incorporation s1
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process of applying all the provisions in the B of R to the states |
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unincorporated rights s1
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right to bear ars, quarter troops, righto a grand jury indictment, trial by jury, and ban on excessive bail and fines, (2, 3, 5, 7, 8)
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jim crow laws
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system of segregation imposed by laws named after a minstrel show character |
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John Marshall Harlan
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lone dissenter in Plessy, sad constitution should be colorblind
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affirmative action s1
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program in which employers take positive steps to offer training and jobs to groups that have suffered discrimination in the past |
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reapportionment s1
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reallocation of legislative seats based on changes in population |
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amendment 14 section 2
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apportionment, counteracts the 3/5's compromise, introduced word male, links right to vote to being male and 21, punished states for denying African American men right to vote, didn't forbid those practices, allows felons to be deprived of right to vote |
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amendment 14 section 3
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prevents those who have a federal office or certain state office ad support confederacy from becoming federal or state officials after the war, eventually removed this restriction |
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amendment 14 section 4 |
validity of public debt of the US, makes clear that US government or state governments will not assume confederate debts, no reimbursement for emancipation of slaves, |
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amendment 14 section 5
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congress has power to enforce the provisions, |
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amendment 15
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suffrage for black men, didn't explicitly grant vote to African American's |
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15 section 1
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right of citizens to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the US or any state on race color or previous condition of servitude, |
