Republican leader Carl Schurz called the Reconstruction amendments a "great Constitutional revolution" because
A) they transformed the Constitution into a vehicle for correcting injustices.
B) the Reconstruction amendments significantly restricted the power of the federal government.
C) the Reconstruction amendments allowed each state to decide what rights its residents were entitled to.
D) the Bill of Rights had mainly been concerned with limiting the power of the states.
E) the Bill of Rights was based on the assumption that rights required national power to enforce them.
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