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The Equal Protection Clause of the 14th amendment of the U.S. Constitution prohibits states from denying any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. See U.S. Const. amend. XIV.
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The Legal Term * Equal Protection Clause * Defined & Explained ... EQUAL PROTECTION CLAUSE - Portion of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution that prohibits discrimination by state government institutions.
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Equal Protection Clause - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Equal Protection Clause , part of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, provides that "(n)o state shall ... deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection ...
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FindLaw | Find a Lawyer. Find Answers. ... Fourteenth Amendment - Rights Guaranteed Privileges and Immunities of Citizenship, Due Process and Equal Protection ... Traditional Equal Protection: Economic Regulation and Related Exercises of the Police Powers...
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''1. The equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment does not take from the State the power to classify in the adoption of police laws, but admits of the exercise of a wide scope of discretion in that regard, and avoids what is done only when it is without any reasonable basis and therefore is purely arbitrary.
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; The issue: When should courts closely scrutinize legislative classifications under the Equal Protection Clause? ... Over recent decades, the Supreme Court has developed a three-tiered approach to analysis under the Equal Protection Clause.
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Two types of classifications cause the Court to depart from its usual rational basis scrutiny under the Equal Protection Clause: when group burdened by the classification is "suspect" (e.g., a racial or ethnic minority, women, aliens) or when the classification burdens what the Court determines to be...
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equal protection n Clause set out in the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution that dictates that state governments cannot pass or enforce any laws ... The Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, adopted in 1868, expressed the commitment of victorious Republican forces after the Civil War to include in...
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