The act that was designed to prevent the abuse of constitutional rights by officers who "under color of state law" deny defendants those rights is

a. the Civil Rights Act.
b. the Civil War Act.
c. the Ku Klux Klan Act.
d. the Vicarious Liability Act.


A

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