Prior to the ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, The Bill of Rights ( the first 10 Amendments to the Constitution) only applied to the Federal government. This meant that states were not obliged to adopt the Amendments and the laws that came as a result of them.
After the Civil War ended, the Fourteenth Amendment was created and ratified, the Bill of Rights was now applicable not only to federal courts but also to state ones. This meant that citizens were now more protected, as federal and states obligations are the same in most cases.
1. "Congress could not provide for a national defense" was the one main weakness <span>of the articles of confederation. The correct option among all the options given is the first option.
2. No entity </span>was given power by the articles of confederation. The correct option among all the options given is the fourth option.
3. The founding fathers thought it necessary to create the articles of confederation to establish a legal basis for a permanent government of the new United States. The correct option is the fourth option.
Answer:
characteristics of a certain nation or racial group
The means extremes product property of proportion states
that the product should be equal. The means product is the product of the two
inner numbers of the proportion and the extremes product is the product of the
two outer numbers of the proportion.