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equal protection, n clause set out in the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution that dictates that state governments cannot pass or enforce any laws based solely on a specific classification of person by race, gender, religion, ethnicity, or age. |
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| Bush doesn't respect the right of the judiciary to uphold the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment or the equality and anti-discrimination guarantees of state constitutions. Represented by the Alliance Defense Fund and the Christian Legal Society, the university sued the state commission in late 2004 arguing that denial of state funding violated the school's religious liberty rights and the Constitution's equal protection clause. Evans decision the Supreme Court said that singling out a class of persons for exclusion from such basic safeguards violated the Constitution's equal protection clause. |
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