The Equal Protection Clause is part of the first section of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. The clause, which took effect in...
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includes the Citizenship Clause, Privileges or Immunities Clause, Due Process Clause, and Equal Protection Clause. The Citizenship Clause broadly defines citizenship...
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Article One of the United States Constitution (redirect from Suspension Clause)
representative represents substantially equal populations, based on court interpretations of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, finding...
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applicability of the Bill of Rights to the states, the Due Process Clause, and the Equal Protection Clause. Justice Harlan was very close to the law clerks whom he...
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guarantees of the proposed Federal Equal Rights Amendment, others more closely resemble the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. The standard...
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Hugo Black (section Equal Protection Clause)
the basis of the equal protection clause.[citation needed] At the same time, Black did not believe that the equal protection clause made poll taxes unconstitutional...
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Loving v. Virginia (category United States equal protection case law)
that the laws banning interracial marriage violate the Equal Protection and Due Process Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Beginning...
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Amendment's Equal Protection Clause applies only to state and local governments, the United States Supreme Court has implied an Equal Protection limitation...
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Education for All Handicapped Children Act (section Functional relationship between EHA, the Rehabilitation Act, and the equal protection clause)
appropriate public education, based either on the EHA or on the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, the EHA is the exclusive avenue through...
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District of Columbia violate the Equal Protection Clause as incorporated against the federal government by the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment. Sarah...
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The issue before the United States Supreme Court is whether the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution mandates the individual...
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Clause contains a prohibition against vague laws and an implied equal protection requirement similar to the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protection Clause...
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States' rights (section The Supremacy Clause)
the Equal Protection Clause. The state action theory weakened the effect of the Equal Protection Clause against state governments, in that the clause was...
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informally known as the Equal Rights Amendment. It includes several rights in the New York State Constitution's Equal Protection Clause, with its chief purpose...
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United States v. Morrison (category United States Commerce Clause case law)
granted to the US Congress under the Commerce Clause and the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protection Clause. Along with United States v. Lopez (1995), it...
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suggesting that the Constitution of the United States, particularly the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment, should be interpreted as prohibiting the...
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exception to the state equal protection clause"; in his dissent, Justice Carlos R. Moreno wrote that exceptions to the equal protection clause could not be made...
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Article Four of the United States Constitution (redirect from Territorial Clause)
Luther v. Borden still holds today, the Court, by looking to the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment (adopted 19 years after Luther v. Borden...
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Amendment contains an implicit equal protection clause whose scope is identical to the Fourteenth Amendment's equal protection clause and that federal discrimination...
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Universal suffrage (redirect from Equal and common suffrage)
that all state poll taxes were unconstitutional as violating the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. This removed a burden on the poor...
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and to several of the individual states. It is founded upon the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment of the United States Constitution. The purpose...
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Wheeling Steel Corp. v. Glander (category United States equal protection case law)
conducting business in Ohio. The court ruled that the tax violated the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment. Wheeling Steel Corp., incorporated in Delaware...
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Same-sex marriage in the United States (redirect from Equal marriage usa)
a fundamental right guaranteed by both the Due Process Clause and the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution...
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Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad Co. (category United States equal protection case law)
for a headnote stating that the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment grants constitutional protections to corporations. The case arose...
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Biraogo v. Philippine Truth Commission (section The purpose of the PTC offends the equal protection clause)
independence of the Office of the Ombudsman, and violates the equal protection clause of the Philippine Constitution for specifically targeting certain...
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the Equal Protection Clause, and Black arguing it was constitutional under the Congressional Elections Clause and the Necessary and Proper Clause. Harlan...
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United States v. Skrmetti (category United States equal protection case law)
and hormone therapy) for minors under the age of 18 violate the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution....
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the contrary. The Equal Protection Clause does, however, require the state to treat each person with equal regard, as having equal worth, regardless of...
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Bush v. Gore (category United States equal protection case law)
different standards of counting in different counties violated the Equal Protection Clause of the U.S. Constitution; the case had also been argued on Article...
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Incorporation of the Bill of Rights (redirect from Fourteenth Amendment Due Process Clause incorporation of the Bill of Rights)
applies the Bill of Rights to the states through the Equal Protection Clause and the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, equality before the law...
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