We The People: Equal Protection | Throughline
August 15, 2024
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as posted by the channelThe Fourteenth Amendment. Of all the amendments to the U.S. Constitution, the 14th is a big one. It's shaped all of our lives, whether we realize it or notRoe v. Wade, Brown v. Board of Education, Bush v. Gore, plus other Supreme Court cases that legalized samesex marriage, interracial marriage, access to birth control they've all been built on the back of the 14th. The amendment was ratified after the Civil War, and it's packed full of lofty phrases like due process, equal protection, and liberty. But what do those words really guarantee us? Today on Throughline's We the PeopleHow the 14th Amendment has remade America and how America has remade the 14th (Originally ran as The Fourteenth Amendment () ).
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