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When Congress required the Southern states to ratify the Fourteenth Amendment, all of them refused. all of them ratified it. Georgia refused. Georgia ratified it.

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Answer: The amendment had been rejected by most Southern states but was ratified by the required three-fourths of the states. Known as the "Reconstruction Amendment," it forbids any state to deny any person "life, liberty or property, without due process of law" or to "deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."

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