In the Slaughterhouse Cases of 1873 the Supreme Court Proclaimed

Multiple Choice

In the Slaughterhouse cases of 1873 the Supreme Court proclaimed that

A) where civil courts were functioning, civilians could not be tried by military courts or commissions.
B) Congress had the power to ensure each state a republican form of government.
C) the Fourteenth Amendment only protected the basic rights of national citizenship, not rights that fell to citizens by virtue of their state citizenship.
D) the Fifteenth Amendment did not confer the right of suffrage upon anyone.
E) congressional Reconstruction governments were unconstitutional because they had been forced upon the south.