The Equal Protection Clause is part of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. The clause, which took effect in 1868, provides that no state shall deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
双语例句
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Board of Education that racially segregated schools violated the equalprotectionclause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
教育委员会认为种族隔离的学校违反了第十四修正案的平等保护条款。
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He rules against racial preferences because he thinks the equalprotectionclause means what it says.