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Why did Congress feel that they needed to rewrite the Civil Rights Act as an

amendment to the Constitution?

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The very purpose of the Fourteenth Amendment was to prevent politicians from denying citizenship to those they thought weren't American enough. This meant former slaves, but in the debate over the amendment the question of citizenship for immigrant children was raised directly

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