14th Amendment Agreement With Japan In Orange
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The Equal Protection Clause requires the government to have a valid reason for any law or official action that treats similarly-situated people or groups of people differently.
—The Fourteenth Amendment, by its terms, limits discrimination only by governmental entities, not by private parties.
“Careful adherence to the 'state action' requirement preserves an area of individual freedom by limiting the reach of federal law and federal judicial power. It also avoids imposing on the State, its agencies or officials, responsibility for conduct for which they cannot fairly be blamed.
No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
The Equal Protection Clause requires the government to have a valid reason for any law or official action that treats similarly-situated people or groups of people differently.
The Fourteenth Amendment's guarantee of "equal protection" protects against discrimination based on many different factors, including race. In this article, you can learn more about Supreme Court cases concerning racial discrimination and equal protection.
The Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution contains a number of important concepts, most famously state action, privileges or immunities, citizenship, due process, and equal protection—all of which are contained in Section One.
The 1947 constitution altered the relationship between state and society by introducing popular sovereignty. The constitution's social reforms were transformative, designing a new role for the Japanese imperial family, placing the nation's military firmly under civilian control, and establishing new rights for women.
