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The Fifteenth Amendment (Amendment XV) to the United States Constitution prohibits the federal and state governments from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's "race, color, or previous condition of servitude." It was ratified on February 3, 1870, as the third and last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
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Which group of people supported the Dred Scott Decision?
The South was delighted with this decision - it declared that slavery was legal in every state of the Union.
How did the fourteenth amendment change the legal status of African Americans who had been enslaved but were born outside the untied states?
The 14th amendment says that everyone is to be treated equally no matter what their color or where they come from
What is the13th amendment?
The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, passed by the Senate on April 8, 1864, by the House on January 31, 1865, and ratified on December 6, 1865, abolished slavery as a legal institution.The Constitution, although never mentioning slavery by name, refers to slaves as "such persons" in Article I, Section 9 and "a person held to service or labor" in Article IV, Section 2. The Thirteenth Amendment, in direct terminology, put an end to this. The amendment states:Section 1:Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.Section 2:Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation."-----------------------The Thirteenth Amendment officially abolished slavery. Prior to its ratification, slavery remained legal only in Delaware and Kentucky; everywhere else in the US slaves had been freed by state action and the federal government's Emancipation Proclamation.Abraham Lincoln and others were concerned that the Emancipation Proclamation would be seen as a temporary war measure, and so, besides freeing slaves in those two states where slavery was still legal, they supported the Amendment as a means to guarantee the permanent abolition of slavery.It was followed by the other Reconstruction Amendments, the Fourteenth (intended to protect the civil rights of former slaves) and Fifteenth (which banned racial restrictions on voting).
Which amendment protects your privacy?
No Constitutional Amendment explicitly enumerates the right to privacy. The right to privacy is implied under the 1st, 4th, 9th, and 14th Amendments. The U.S. Supreme Court first acknowledged a right to privacy in the case Griswold v. Connecticut in 1965, which affirmed the right to marital privacy. The most common argument today deals with Justice Harlan's "substantive due process" justification, which arises from the 14th Amendment due process clause and the 9th Amendment.
The 5 amendment states that government may not deprive of their life liberty or property without what?
Due process. In other words a process must be followed.
