POL SCI 40 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: James A. Garfield, Slave Power
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Anyone born on american soil is guaranteed full american citizenship. No state can strip any of its residents of the full privileges of citizenship (life, liberty, or property) All citizens are guaranteed due process of the law states cannot pass arbitrary or unfair laws. All citizens are guaranteed equal protections of the laws (states cannot discriminate against particular groups of citizens) Guaranteed the rights of u. s. citizens to vote, and suffrage rights cannot be discriminated on basis of race, color, or former slave status. Banned state suffrage laws that discriminated against any group of citizens on the basis of race. Black codes - made black southerners wards of the state, granting officials authority to bind them out under contract to planters in need of hands (slavery in all but name) Blacks who had no regular employment for a white master was subject to whippings and imprisonment.
