The passage below is an excerpt from the Fourteenth Amendment. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property
without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

Which statement explains why this amendment was adopted?

A) to extend voting rights to emancipated slaves

B) to protect the civil rights of African Americans

C) to guarantee states' rights to make their own laws

D) to prevent states from seeding from the Union

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Who was one of the greatest playwrights in the world , composing such classics ans macbeth, romeo and juliet, and henry v a. william shakespeare b. francis drake c. sir walter raleigh d. edmund spenser

Which of these is an exclusive power of the house of representatives? to amend a bill to impeach a government official to check the power of the president to review a tax bill the senate has proposed

"as long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed the diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to a uniformity of interests. the protection of these faculties is the first object of government. from the protection of different and unequal faculties of acquiring property, the possession of different degrees and kinds of property immediately results, and from the influence of these on the sentiments and views of the respective proprietors, ensues a division of the society into different interests and parties." - publius (james madison), federalist no. 10 based on the text, which of the following statements would the author most likely agree with? a: political liberty is best protected by the fragmentation of political power in a large republic. b: political liberty is best protected by a small republic with a unicameral legislature. c: political liberty is least protected in large republic with lots of fractions. d: political liberty is best protected by a particularly democracy.