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14th Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause
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- Last updated: April 1, 2024
- Grade level: High School (9-12)
- Theme(s): Equal Protection, Supreme Court/Judicial Branch
- Issue Area(s): Not set
- U.S. Supreme Court: Not set
- U.S. Constitution: 14th Amendment
In this lesson, students explore the evolution of the interpretation of the 14th Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause through analysis of primary source excerpts from:
- The 14th Amendment
- Congressional Debates on the 14th Amendment
- The Civil Rights Cases (1883)
- Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
- Brown v. Board of Education I (1954)
- Loving v. Virginia (1967)
- Reed v. Reed (1971)
- Regents of the University of California v. Bakke (1978)
- Obergefell v. Hodges (2015)
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