Alonso Higgins

History

9 November, 02:00

The Fourteenth Amendment:

a. passed despite the opposition of Charles Sumner.

b. specifically defined suffrage as one of the civil rights to which free people were entitled.

c. represented a compromise between the moderate and conservative positions on race.

d. placed into the U. S. Constitution an essential holding of the Dred Scott decision.

e. marked the most important change in the U. S. Constitution since the Bill of Rights.