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How does reducing the scope of the 14th Amendment

during the slaughterhouse cases hurt the rights of Americans ?

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The Slaughterhouse Cases, resolved by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1873, ruled that a citizen's "privileges and immunities," as protected by the Constitution's Fourteenth Amendment against the states, were limited to those spelled out in the Constitution and did not include many rights given by the individual states.

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