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Read this excerpt from the Supreme Court decision that the Civil Rights Act of 1875 was unconstitutional, and then answer the question. According to this passage, what was the purpose of the Fourteenth Amendment?

The 13th Amendment relates to slavery and involuntary servitude (which it abolishes); ... yet such legislative power extends only to the subject of slavery and its incidents; and the denial of equal accommodations in inns, public conveyances and places of public amusement (which is forbidden by the sections in question), imposes no badge of slavery or involuntary servitude upon the party, but at most, infringes rights which are protected from State aggression by the 14th Amendment. -Supreme Court decision, 1883

-to protect against discrimination by the state government
-to protect against enslavement or involuntary servitude
-to protect against discrimination by private businesses

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