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Equal Protection Clause

Legal definition for Indian law research

Definition

equal protection clause


often cap E&P&C
: the clause in the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution that prohibits any state from denying to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws




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