South Carolina ratifies the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, guaranteeing constitutional protections and due process to all American citizens. One of the three Reconstruction Amendments, it effectively voided the Dred Scott decision that prevented African-Americans from attaining U.S. citizenship.
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