Match the Amendment with the Inmates' Right Issue to Which

question 54

Multiple Choice

Match the Amendment with the inmates' right issue to which it is related.Answers may be used more than once.
-Free speech

• A)First Amendment
• B)Eighth Amendment
• C)Fourteenth Amendment

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Definitions:

Fourteenth Amendment

was adopted in 1868 as one of the Reconstruction Amendments, granting citizenship and equal civil and legal rights to African Americans and slaves who had been emancipated.

United States Citizenship

The status of being a recognized member of the United States, entitled to rights and subject to obligations under the Constitution and laws.

Asians

People originating from or associated with the continent of Asia, encompassing a wide range of ethnicities, cultures, and languages.

Slaughterhouse Cases

A set of 19th-century Supreme Court cases dealing with the rights of citizens under the Fourteenth Amendment post-Civil War, significant for their interpretations of federal versus state powers.