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The Equal Protection Clause, part of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, provides that "no state shall ... deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws".
Rights or prpoperty without due process
Equal rights
The 14th Amendment
The equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment prevents state governments from practicing unfair discrimination. States cannot make decisions based on race, religion, gender, and other qualities.
Amendment 14, ratified July 9, 1868, which says in section 1: "1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."
The Central Purpose of the Equal Protection Clause (amendment 14) is to protect all rights given by the Bill of rights. For example the Equal Porotection Clause was made right after Civil war in which the 13th amendment freed slaves. So this clause was made that so these free slaves can have equal protection under the law. Though I personally feel that it took time for this to actually happen and I still feel today that this amendment has not been accomplished yet. But this is the central purpose for the Equal protection Clause.
The nickname for the 14th amendment is the "Equal Protection Amendment."
The equal protection clause of the 14th amendment to the US constitution applies to the states and forbids them from denying any person equal protection of the law. This clause has been interpreted to forbid a state and any of its subsidiarity entities from treating any person different in their various institutional activities. Makes you wonder doesn't it how gay marriage can be forbidden by State laws when it's treating "people," who are not criminals different. The equal protection clause does not apply to private entities (hospitals, stores, restaurants, clubs, etc.), only the State.
is equal opportunity
The 14th Amendment offers equal protection.
What conflict in values is expressed by the phrase separate but equal