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The Equal Protection Clause
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The equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment forbids states to deny any person the equal protection of the laws.
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The clause is the constitutional home of most civil rights claims.
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Equal protection binds states by text; parallel doctrine reaches the national government through Fifth Amendment due process.