Which part of the United States Constitution did Roscoe help to draft?
First Amendment
Tenth Amendment
Fourteenth Amendment
Eighteenth Amendment
Answer
The Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, drafted in part by Roscoe Conkling, guarantees equal civil rights and equal protections of the law to all citizens, regardless of race or previous condition of servitude. It also contains the Due Process Clause and the Equal Protection Clause, which are fundamental to civil rights law in the United States.
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