Can anyone help me explain explain how the 13th 14th and 15th amendment were nesecarry to advance the?
Until the 14th, freed slaves had no rights as citizens of their states, because they were not given citizenship. Therefore they had no Constitutional rights. Civil rights are not Constitutional rights, and are given to people who have no rights under state laws, such as persons in Territories, or on passenger ships in the middle of the ocean, etc. The 14th gave them these civil rights (the “citizens of the United States” clause). “Its Due Process Clause has been used to apply most of the Bill of Rights to the states.” [Until then, they were rarely invoked against the States, which recognized them by individually determining their meaning.] “This clause has also been used to recognize substantive due process rights, such as parental and marriage rights, and procedural due process rights. Certain steps are required before depriving a person of their life, liberty, or property. “The amendment’s Equal Protection Clause requires states to provide equal protection under the law to all people
