The Fourteenth Amendment stresses that anyone born or naturalized in the United States is a citizen and cannot be deprived of their rights. Which detail from the passage supports the court’s reason for not using previous rulings on effects of the Fourteenth Amendment to decide this case?

a) The 14th Amendment specifies that people of different races should be segregated in public schools.
b) In the North, both white children and African American children were educated equally.
c) The 14th Amendment’s impact on public education was not addressed in previous cases.
d) In the South, the 14th Amendment was thought to cover the private education of white children.