national gov't quiz #6 Worksheet

contains provisions that protect non-enumerated rights
constitutional privileges that the government MUST provide according to the 5th and 14th amendment
"nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property without due process of the law..."
this stipulated that no level of government can't summarily deny basic rights to any citizen and was created by the 14th amendment
prohibits a government from applying laws in a discriminatory matter and created by the 14th amendment
passed in the wake of the civil war which granted citizenships to former slaves and extended equal rights
Protected african americans citizens
made it illegal to use "law of custom" to prevent an individual from enjoying the rights of citizenship
prevented anyone from voting who could not prove that their grandfather had voted before 1867
a test administered as a precondition to vote, as a way to specifically prevent black participation