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The Original Understanding of “Equal Protection of the Laws”

Authors: John P. Frank (Yale University) , Robert F. Munro (Indiana University School of Law)

  • The Original Understanding of “Equal Protection of the Laws”

    Symposium

    The Original Understanding of “Equal Protection of the Laws”

    Authors: ,

Abstract

This Article reports on the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth amendments and their legislative evolutions, and also looks at the historical environment in which the equal protection clause was developed, in order to gain an understanding of how that clause was originally read.

Keywords: Equal protection, Fourteenth Amendment

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1972-01-01