RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
THE END OF RECONSTRUCTION AND THE ELECTION OF 1876
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African American men were entitled to suffrage.
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the states had exceeded their power in defining rights for citizens.
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the Civil Rights and Enforcement Acts were unconstitutional.
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the Fourteenth Amendment protected citizens from action by the state, but not from action by fellow citizens.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Cruikshank. United States v. Cruikshank, 92 U.S. 542 (1876), was a major decision of the United States Supreme Court ruling that the U.S. Bill of Rights did not limit the power of private actors or state governments despite the adoption of the Fourteenth Amendment.
Detailed explanation-2: -Cruikshank, 92 U.S. 542 (1875) The right to keep and bear arms exists separately from the Constitution and is not solely based on the Second Amendment, which exists to prevent Congress from infringing the right.
Detailed explanation-3: -In its decision, the Supreme Court sided with Cruikshank, ruling that the 14th Amendment’s Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses applied only to state action, and not to violations of civil rights by individual citizens.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Court ruled that the Second Amendment only restricted the federal government; it was not a prohibition against state action and therefore Illinois could regulate private militia. The Second Amendment, the Court ruled, did not give Herman Presser the right to run his own private army.
Detailed explanation-5: -What did the Supreme Court rule in United States v. Cruikshank (1876)? The equal protection and due process requirements of the Fourteenth Amendment only applied to states, not to individuals.