<Tr> <Th_colspan="2"> Laws applied </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> U.S. Const . Art . IV . sec. 2, 13th, 14th, 15th Amendments </Td> </Tr> <P> The Slaughter - House Cases, 83 U.S. (16 Wall .) 36 (1873), was the first United States Supreme Court interpretation of the U.S. Constitution's Fourteenth Amendment which had recently been enacted . It was a pivotal case in early civil rights law and held that the Fourteenth Amendment protects the privileges or immunities of citizenship of the United States, not privileges and immunities of citizenship of a state . However, as the federal rights of citizenship were then few, such as the right to travel between states and to use navigable rivers; the amendment did not protect the far broader range of rights covered by state citizenship . In effect, the amendment was interpreted to convey limited protection pertinent to a small minority of rights . </P> <P> The decision consolidated three similar cases: </P>

The slaughterhouse cases of 1873 are significant because the supreme court
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