1 Article 26 provides equal protection before the law and equal protection of the law without any discrimination.

2 Yet in constitutional terms, since the Fourteenth Amendment already guarantees "equal protection of the laws," it is unclear just how an equal rights amendment would affect existing law.

3 The court said that the US Constitution guaranteed "equal protection of the laws", and this meant equal treatment for blacks and whites.

4 The original intention of the Equal Protection of the Laws Clause was to protect the black people's equal rights.

5 deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

6 The guaranty of equal protection of the laws is a pledge of the protection of equal laws.

7 The Congress of the United States constituted the "Equal protection of the laws Clause" in the Fourteenth Amendment to protect the black people's rights during the Reconstruction.

8 Such segregation is a denial of the equal protection of the laws.

9 The plaintiffs contend that segregated public schools are not "equal" and cannot be made "equal,() " and that hence they are deprived of the equal protection of the laws.

10 Besides, the compromise of the northern liberalists and the black leader's self-identity to the white's ideologies gave other impetuses for the dormancy of the Equal Protection of the laws Clause.

11 The black people gained the civil rights, especially the voting right, and the Equal Protection of the Laws Clause in the Fourteenth Amendment to protect their rights during the Reconstruction.

12 are, by reason of the segregation complained of,[] deprived of the equal protection of the laws guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment.

13 It declared that they could not deprive any person of life, liberty, or property without "due process of law" or deny any person "the equal protection of the laws."

14 The pivot of this thesis is to explore why Equal Protection of the Laws Clause was dormant on the aspect of protecting the black people's rights after the Reconstruction.

15 Part four analyses the legal factors for the dormancy of the Equal Protection of the laws Clause.

16 Part one concerns about the establishment and dormancy of the Equal Protection of the laws Clause.

17 This segregation was alleged to deprive the plaintiffs of the equal protection of the laws under the Fourteenth Amendment.

18 In the wake of the Fourteenth Amendment, the states could not, among other things, deprive people of the equal protection of the laws.

19 Only in this way can it be determined if segregation in public schools deprives these plaintiffs of the equal protection of the laws.

20 Therefore, we hold that the plaintiffs and others ... are, by reason of the segregation complained of, deprived of the equal protection of the laws guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment.

21 The Fourteenth Amendment says states may not deny anyone the equal protection of the laws.