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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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| Board of Education put the weight on government to provide equal protection and opportunity to everyone, a trend that the country is quickly regressing from. The court ruled that the very fact of segregation--even if schools for blacks were equal in quality to schools for whites--violated the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, which requires that the government provide all citizens with "the equal protection of the laws. After being convicted for violating the exclusion order, Korematsu (an American of Japanese descent) challenged his conviction on the grounds that, among other things, the order denied him the equal protection of the laws implicit in the due process clause of the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution. |
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