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After the Civil War, Congress amended the Constitution to guarantee equal protection under the law for all citizens under the Fourteenth Amendment. Congress would also use this amendment to pass additional civil rights laws. However, in the decades following the Civil War, the Supreme Court limited federal power and reinforced the notion of dual federalism.
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