Slaughterhouse cases - sustany/dvg GitHub Wiki

A 1873 U.S.�Supreme Court�decision,�83 US 36, on a series of cases in which the Court expressed its first interpretation of the privileges and immunities�clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.� The court interpreted this clause as protecting the rights people have by virtue of their US citizenship, not by virtue of their citizenship of a state. �It then defined the rights of US citizens narrowly, excluding civil rights. �The dissents, and modern critics of the case, say that this effectively rendered the clause meaningless.