... amendment was ratified on July 28, 1868. Southern states were required to ratify it in order to be readmitted into the Union However, the Supreme Court's ruling in the 1873 Slaughterhouse cases diluted the amendment so much that all federal control over state police powers was virtually eliminated . The Fourteenth Amendment was also very important much later on, in the 1950s ... ...

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