Question

The passage below is an excerpt from the Fourteenth Amendment: No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. The ratification of this amendment gave Congress the power to pass which kinds of laws?

Answer 1

Answer: The answer is A.

Explanation: The ratification of 14th amendment gave Congress the power to laws protecting civil rights.

The Equal Protection Clause is included in the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. The clause was enforced in 1868 and supports that no state shall refuse to any person within its jurisdiction “equal protection of the laws”.

Answer 2

according to my data it will be the first one