Question

What Did The Supreme Court Decision In The Slaughterhouse Cases Do American Businesses

Answer 1

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The Slaughter-House Cases, 83 U.S. (16 Wall.) ... It was a pivotal case in early civil rights law and held that the Fourteenth Amendment protects the privileges or immunities of citizenship of the United States, not privileges and immunities of citizenship of a state.

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Answer 2

To keep hold of the privileges or immunities The Slaughter-House Cases decision was made.

Based on the Fourteenth Amendment it was passed to protects the privileges or immunities the United States citizens and not of those who belong to the state citizenship.

Their federal rights included things such as the right to travel between states, usage of navigable rivers etc.