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equal protection of the law  

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  • Guarantee contained in the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution intended to protect individual rights from interference by states. The Court, however, has never interpreted this clause to require that all persons and all groups are treated in exactly the same way. [Source: Student's Guide to the Supreme Court; Equal Protection of the Law]

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