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The Fifth Amendment's Proscription Against Depriving Any "Citizen of Life

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The Fifth Amendment's proscription against depriving any "citizen of life, liberty or property without due process of law" did not apply to the states until the same language made its way into:


A) a federal statute passed in response to Barron v.Baltimore, an 1883 case which the Court suggested that the Bill of Rights did not apply to the states.
B) Supreme Court decisions handed down after the Civil War that banned slavery and increased the power of the federal government.
C) the Thirteenth Amendment, which banned slavery and involuntary servitude in the United States, and won ratification after the Civil War.
D) the Fourteenth Amendment, which concerns the rights of citizenship, and was passed in the wake of the Civil War.

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