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DiKsa [7]
3 years ago
12

If the 14th Amendment was adopted in 1868, why did

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1 answer:
Mamont248 [21]3 years ago
5 0

It took so long for the Supreme Court to apply the Fourteenth Amendment to state authorities because of a deeply-embedded principle at the heart of the original Bill of Rights that it was state governments that needed protection from federal overreach.

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