equal protection
Same treatment guaranteed
Equal protection is the constitutional principle that government must treat people in similar circumstances the same under the law.
In the United States, the Fourteenth Amendment guarantees equal protection, forming the basis for challenges to discrimination based on race, sex, and other classifications.
The law was struck down on equal protection grounds.
- due processGuaranteed judicial fairness
- Fourteenth AmendmentPost-Civil War constitutional addition
- strict scrutinyMost rigorous constitutional test
- disparate impactDiscrimination through neutral practices
- civil rightsGuaranteed individual legal protections
fundamental rights · Thurgood Marshall · constitutional law · racial discrimination · voting rights · Loving v. Virginia · equality · judicial review · age discrimination · Brown v. Board of Education · feminist movement · class action · legal standing · disability discrimination · religious discrimination · anti-discrimination laws · gender discrimination · affirmative action
- Legal Fairnessdue process, blind justice, fair trial, legal equality, equitable treatment
- civicsballot, election, ballots, Bill of Rights, branches of government
- justicecourtroom, trials, retributive justice, courts, gavel
- fairnessfair play, fair shake, fair treatment, fair and square, fair share
- lawslaws, statute, ordinance, acts, statutes
- rightscivil liberties, constitutional rights, right, rights, human rights
equal protectiondiscrimination
Unjust differential treatment
selective enforcement · unequal treatment · legal discrimination · Jim Crow laws · apartheid
equal protectionsegregation
Forced separation by group
Jim Crow · apartheid · systemic discrimination · institutional racism · structural inequality
equal protectiontyranny
Oppressive, absolute governance
despotism · lawlessness · abuse of power · political persecution · victor's justice