首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
The Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, ratified in 1868, prohibits state governments from denying citizens
The Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, ratified in 1868, prohibits state governments from denying citizens
admin
2013-01-25
44
问题
The Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, ratified in 1868, prohibits state governments from denying citizens the "equal protection of the laws". Although precisely what the framers of the amendment meant by this equal protection clause remains unclear, all interpreters agree that the framers’ immediate objective was to provide a constitutional warrant for the Civil Rights Act of 1866, which guaranteed the citizenship of all persons born in the United States and subject to United States jurisdiction. This declaration, which was echoed in the text of the Fourteenth Amendment, was designed primarily to counter the Supreme Court’s ruling in Dred Scott v. Sanford that Black people in the United States could be denied citizenship. The act was vetoed by President An- drew Johnson, who argued that the Thirteenth Amendment, which abolished slavery, did not provide Congress with authority, to extend citizenship and equal protection the freed slaves. Although Congress promptly overrode Johnson’s veto, supporters of the act sought to ensure its constitutional foundations with the passage of the Fourteenth Amendment.
The broad language of the amendment strongly suggests that its framers were proposing to write into the Constitution not a laundry list of specific civil rights but a principle of equal citizenship that forbids organized society from treating any individual as a member of an inferior class. Yet for the first eight decades of the amendment’s existence, the Supreme Court’s interpretation of the amendment betrayed this ideal of equality. In the Civil Rights Cases of 1883, for example, the Court in- vented the "state action" limitation, which asserts that "private" decisions by owners of public accommodations and other commercial businesses to segregate their facilities are insulated from file reach of the Fourteenth Amendment’ s guarantee of equal protection under the law. After the Second World War, a judicial climate more hospitable to equal protection claims culminated in the Supreme Court’s ruling in Brown V. Broad of Education that racially segregated schools violated the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
According to the passage, which of the following most accurately indicates the sequence of the events listed below? Ⅰ. Civil Rights Act of 1866 Ⅱ. Dred Scott v. Sandford Ⅲ. Fourteenth Amendment Ⅳ. Veto by President Johnson
选项
A、I-Il-IV-III
B、III-II-IV-I
C、II-11I-I-IV
D、Il-I-IV-III
答案
D
解析
从文章第一段可知,由于存在Dred Scott v. Sandford,所以才提出了Civil Rights Act,但President Johnson否决了该项法案,随后才有Fourteenth Amendment的通过,选项D正确。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/XJ1O777K
0
考博英语
相关试题推荐
Althoughthe"online"lifestylehasdominatedthemajorityofcityyouth,mostpeopleintheremotecountrysidestillthinkInt
TherecoveryoftheUSeconomyduringthefirstquarterofthisyearhasbeensospectacularthatitiscreatinganewsetofri
Thirty-onemillionAmericansareover60yearsofage,andtwenty-ninemillionofthemarehealthy,busy,productivecitizens.B
SallyKemmererhas,sofar,escapedNorthernCalifornia’srollingblackouts.ButupontheroofforherOaklandhome,workersa
Tounderstandthemarketingconcept,itisonlynecessarytounderstandthedifferencebetweenmarketingandselling.Nottooma
Themarketfornon-foodGEproductscouldexceedthemarketforGEfoodproductsbyawide______withinthenextfewyears.
AlbertEinsteinonceattributedthecreativityofafamousscientisttothefactthathe"neverwenttoschool,andthereforepr
Whenautomationisintroducedintothefactory,alltheworkdonebyhandwill_____theassemblyline.
(1)Sincethelineageofinvestigativejournalismismostdirectlytraceabletotheprogressiveeraoftheearly1900’s,itisn
Twotruckswerereportedtohave______head-onyesterday.
随机试题
如果你有任何问题,请尽快联系我们。
书证可以从不同角度进行分类,具体包括哪些?()
试述我国人民代表大会制度及其优越性。
甲、乙共谋行抢。甲在偏僻巷道的出口望风,乙将路人丙的书包(内有现金1万元)一把夺下转身奔逃,丙随后追赶,欲夺回书包。甲在丙跑到巷道口时突然伸腿将丙绊倒,丙倒地后摔成轻伤,甲、乙乘机逃脱。甲、乙的行为构成何罪?()
对气焊焊口应采用正火加高温回火处理,其中采用正火处理的目的是( )。
弹簧秤(最大称量为20公斤)
深圳证券交易所证券交易的收盘价为当日该证券最后一笔交易前1分钟所有交易的成交量加权平均价(含最后一笔交易)。当日无成交的,以前收盘价为当日收盘价。()
()是中小学日常思想道德和学生管理工作的主要实施者,是中小学健康成长引导者。
假设一个经济由以下方程刻画:C=220+0.8(Y-T+TR);I=100+0.08Y;T=0.1y;G=100;Tr=1。0。其中,C为消费、Y为产出、T为固定税收、Tr为转移支付、I为投资、G为政府购买支出。(2016年暨南大学803西方经济学)如
在考生文件夹下,打开文档word.docx,按照要求完成下列操作并以该文件名(word1.docx)保存文档。【文档开始】入世半年中国气车市场发展变化出现五大特点在中国加入WTO半年多的时间里,中国气车市场发生了深刻的变化,这种变化呈现出五大特点:产
最新回复
(
0
)