a) 5. This excerpt describes circumstances that led to the 1967 Supreme Court case Loving v. Virginia. In June, 1958, two residents of Virginia, Mildred Jeter, a Negro woman and Richard Loving, a white man, were married in the District of Columbia pursuant to its laws Shortly after their marriage , the Lovings returned to Virginia and established their marital abode in Caroline County. At the October Term, 1958, of the Circuit Court of Caroline County, a grand jury issued an indictment charging the Lovings with violating Virginia's ban on interracial marriages. On January 6, 1959, the Lovings pleaded guilty to the charge, and were sentenced to one year in jail; however, the trial judge suspended the sentence for a period of 25 years on the condition that the Lovings leave the State and not return to Virginia together for 25 years. -Legal Information Institute, www.law.cornell.edu (accessed May 9,2019) Why did the U.S.Supreme Court unanimously rule that Virginia's interracial marriage law was unconstitutional? The ban violated the principle of federalism described in the Tenth Amendment. The ban violated the equal protection and due process clauses found in the Fourteenth Amendment. The ban violated the right to a jury trial in the Sixth Amendment. The ban violated the right to free exercise of religion in the First Amendment.