In the plessy vs ferguson decision supreme court justices claimed that the fourteenth amendment did not protect

Social rights, is the right answer.

Explanation:

Plessy v. Ferguson was a breakthrough judgment of the U.S. Supreme Court, published in 1896. It upheld the legality of ethnic discrimination laws for public facilities as far as the segregated facilities were similar in nature, this very concept came to be recognized as "separate but equal". The Supreme Court justices, in this case, declared that the fourteenth amendment did not protect social rights.

the romans were initially interested in expansion via sicily (which at that time was a cultural melting pot), part of which lay under carthaginian control. at the start of the first punic war (264-241 bc), carthage was the dominant power of the western mediterranean, with an extensive maritime empire