Question

Why do you suppose the Fourteenth Amendment, which extends to the individual states the requirement to respect and comply with the guarantees set forth in the Bill of Rights, was ratified immediately following the Civil War?
-The Fourteenth Amendment was passed immediately following World War I, not the Civil War.
-Congress and the executive branch wanted to make certain the rights and liberties of recently freed slaves were protected.
-Ratification had been under consideration for decades, and Congress merely wanted to clean up old business.
-This was a strategy to force the Confederate states back into the Union.

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The Bill of Rights 1689, also known as the Bill of Rights 1688,[nb 2] is a landmark Act in the constitutional law of England that sets out certain basic civil rights and clarifies who would be next to inherit the Crown. It received the Royal Assent