equal protection clause

     

The Equal Protection Clause, part of the Fourteenth Amenment to the United States Constitution, provides that "no state shall… deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws." The Equal Protection Clause can be seen as an attempt to secure the promise of the United States' professed commitment to the proposition that "all men are created equal" by empowering the judiciary to enforce that principle against the states.

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  • This 2-word clause in the 14th Amendment was cited in Brown v. Board of Education & Bush v. Gore

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