The Violence against Women Act
a. makes it a federal crime to cross state lines to do bodily harm to spouses or intimate partners.
b. protects U.S. citizens only and not immigrant women until they have obtained citizenship.
c. serves primarily has an ideological resolution since it is an "unfunded mandate."
d. was declared in violation of the Second Amendment in the Bill of Rights by the Supreme Court.
a
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