The Development of the United States From Colonies to a World Power
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As a further safeguard, but with evident political purposes, former office-hold- ers who had become Confederates were de- barred from holding any office, state or federal, unless specially permitted by a two-thirds vote of Congress. The last clauses of the first section seem to be in keeping with the pur- pose of the amendment, but later they be- came one of the most effective weapons in the arsenal of corporations and so particular at- tention is called to them. The clauses read : — No State s...hall make . . . 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 immediate purposes of the amendment had been largely provided for in the Civil Rights Act and further supplementary legis- lation could if necessary have been enacted, 240 RECONSTRUCTION AND ADJUSTMENT but the efficacy of laws might be weakened and they might even be repealed, if Southern- ers or Democrats should come into power.
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