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Based on the information provided within the question it can be said that these rulings severely hurt the status of African American's pursuit of civil rights because they ended up limiting the federal government's ability to be able to protect those rights because the courts ruled that the legal rights were only associated with federal citizenship, not those that pertain to state citizenship.
The Inquisition did not intend to use religion as a means of controlling the people, but rather wished the Jewish and Muslim religions out of the domain of their territories and this was the means the Inquisition used to reach them.
All the punishment was so extreme during the Spanish inquisition because it was a form of maintenance of the power by his king Ferdinand II of Aragon.