"All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. 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." — Fourteenth Amendment, Section 1, ratified 1868
The promise of equal protection was substantially narrowed in the late nineteenth century by which Supreme Court ruling?
- A
United States v. Nixon (1974), limiting executive privilege
- B
Korematsu v. United States (1944), upholding wartime internment
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Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), permitting 'separate but equal' segregation
- D
Brown v. Board of Education (1954), invalidating segregated schools
Explanation
Plessy upheld Louisiana's railroad-car segregation under the "separate but equal" doctrine, gutting Fourteenth Amendment guarantees. Brown reversed Plessy; Nixon and Korematsu addressed unrelated questions.