The Fourteenth Amendment is a broadly worded and widely utilized law. Its original intent, however, was to ______
A) protect freed slaves from discriminatory state laws
B) ensure that the needs of the state governments were protected
C) protect President Lincoln from impeachment during a time of war
D) give citizens powerful rights against the government
E) protect the government from overly aggressive citizens
A
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