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Why did the Republicans in Congress feel that the Fourteenth Amendment was necessary?
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They worried the wealthy southern planters would not comply with the Civil Rights Act.
They worried the wealthy southern planters would not comply with the Civil Rights Act.
They worried that President Johnson would not enforce the Civil Rights Act.
They worried that President Johnson would not enforce the Civil Rights Act.
They worried that the South would secede from the Union again.
They worried that the South would secede from the Union again.
They worried that the Supreme Court would find the Civil Rights Act unconstitutional.
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They worried that the Supreme Court would find the Civil Rights Act unconstitutional. This is why they put key protections into the Constitution (the 14th Amendment) to make them harder to overturn.
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