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The Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution, which declared all persons who were either born or naturalized in the United States, equal protection under the law. The principle reason for the Equal Protection Clause was to guarantee that the newly freed slaves were entitled to the same protections under the law as white citizens.

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Which amendment guarantees due process and equal protection of the laws?

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