Which option best completes the diagram?

?

The Supreme

Court interprets

due process to

mean that

Bm of Rights

protections apply

to the states.

Most protections

in the Bill of

Rights are

incorporated on

a case-by-case

basis.

O

A. The Fourteenth Amendment is passed without a due process

clause.

O

B. The Fourteenth Amendment requires state governments to

guarantee due process.

O

C. Congress passes a law requiring the government to provide

substantial due process.

O

D. The Fifth Amendment requires the federal government to

guarantee due process.

(APEX!)

The correct answer is B) The Fourteenth Amendment requires state governments to guarantee due process.

The option that best completes the diagram is "the Fourteenth Amendment requires state governments to guarantee due process."

The 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution represented an important step regarding equality between people in America. This amendment granted citizenship to former African American slaves. The amendment also gave black people equal civil rights that protected African Americans as part of the Reconstruction process of the US after the bloody Civil War.