Not until after the Second World War did the Supreme Court begin to interpret the Fourteenth Amendment in a manner consistent with the principle of equal citizenship that it expresses.
Interpreters of the Fourteenth Amendment have yet to reach consensus with regard to what its framers meant by the equal protection clause.
Although the reluctance of judges to extend the reach of the Fourteenth Amendment to nonracial discrimination has betrayed the principle of equal citizenship, the Supreme Courts use of the state action limitation to insulate private activity from the amendments reach has been more harmful.
7.2. The passage suggests that the principal effect of the state action limitation was to
allow some discriminatory practices to continue unimpeded by the Fourteenth Amendment
influence the Supreme Courts ruling in Brown v, Board of Education
provide expanded guidelines describing prohibited actions
prohibit states from enacting laws that violated the intent of the Civil Rights Act of 1866
shift to state governments the responsibility for enforcement of laws prohibiting discriminatory practices
7.3. The authors position regarding the intent of the framers of the Fourteenth Amendment would be most seriously undermined if which of the following were true?
The framers had anticipated state action limitations as they are described in the passage.
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