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Hasibul Alam Posted 11 years ago
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The Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, ratified in 1868, prohibits state governments from denying citizens the "equal protection of the laws.
  

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The 14th Amendment was the second of three so-called "Reconstruction Amendments" passed after the US Civil War to protect the rights of newly-freed slaves. " If you take the words at face value, it seems to say that the laws must treat everyone the same, but this is clearly impossible. For example, In the US, veterans of the armed forces get special benefits.

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  • The 14th Amendment was the second of three so-called "Reconstruction Amendments" passed after the US Civil War to protect the rights of newly-freed slaves.
  • " If you take the words at face value, it seems to say that the laws must treat everyone the same, but this is clearly impossible.
  • For example, In the US, veterans of the armed forces get special benefits.
  • I'v never served in the United States military, so I'm not eligible for those benefits.
  • Thus the law treats me differently from veterans.
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The 14th Amendment was the second of three so-called "Reconstruction Amendments" passed after the US Civil War to protect the rights of newly-freed slaves. The question you asked has been answered over the years by the United States Supreme Court, and that answer cannot be discerned by examining the meaning of the individual words in the phrase "equal protection of the laws."

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