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- Nov 07, 2020
Equal Protection Quotes
On constitutional rights and how different views value them.
These equal protection quotes discuss constitutional rights, especially how the 14th Amendment's equal protection clause is discussed alongside the Fifth Amendment's protections. See Amendment quotes for more.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Constitution
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- Nov 07, 2020
Money is speech. It's incongruous to say a multimillionaire can spend as much on his own campaign as he wants, but you can only give $2,300. His free speech rights are different from yours, thus violating the Equal Protection Clause of the Constitution. It's absurd.
- Protection
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- Nov 07, 2020
Seeking equal protection under our laws for the LGBT community is the right thing to do.
- Extraordinarily
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- Nov 07, 2020
History has shown us that, on extraordinarily rare occasions, it becomes necessary for the federal government to intervene on behalf of individuals whose 14th Amendment rights to legal due process and equal protection may be violated by a state.
- Equality
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- Nov 07, 2020
It wouldn't be fair to say that conservatives cherish property the way liberals cherish equality. But it would be fair to say that the takings clause is the conservatives' recipe for judicial activism just as they say liberals have misused the equal protection clause.
- Clause
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- Nov 07, 2020
The 'takings' clause of the Fifth Amendment is for conservatives what the equal protection clause of the 14th is for liberals.
- Constitution
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- Nov 07, 2020
A ban on same-sex marriage violates the state Constitution's equal protection clause.
- Opportunity
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What is the American dream? The American dream is one big tent. One big tent. And on that big tent you have four basic promises: equal protection under the law, equal opportunity, equal access, and fair share.
- Equal
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- Nov 07, 2020
Syria, for all its problems, at least has a constitution that guarantees equal protection of citizens. Around the world, we have seen that this is essential where Christians are a minority and are not protected.
- Constitution
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- Nov 07, 2020
The language of the Constitution's guarantee of equal protection of the laws did not change between 1896 and 1954, and it would be very hard to say that the obvious facts on which 'Plessy' was based had changed.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Constitution has a good share of deliberately open-ended guarantees, like rights to due process of law, equal protection of the law, and freedom from unreasonable searches.
- Government
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Full participation in government and society has been a basic right of the country symbolizing the full citizenship and equal protection of all.
- Protection
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no proportional representation requirement in the Equal Protection Clause.
- Equal
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- Nov 07, 2020