What Was the Result of the Supreme Court's Ruling in the Slaughterhouse

question 10

Multiple Choice

What was the result of the Supreme Court's ruling in the Slaughterhouse cases (1873) ?

• A) It limited the authority of federal courts in cases involving the civil rights of state citizens.
• B) It extended the Fourteenth Amendment's due process protections to make state governments compliant.
• C) It extended the Fourteenth Amendment's equal protection clause to education.
• D) It reinforced that the rights of national citizenship took precedence over the rights of state citizenship.

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