equal protection of the laws

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   a right guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment to the US Constitution and by the due-process clause of the Fifth Amendment

   Broadercivil right

   law

Questions about equal protection of the laws

What does equal protection of the laws mean?

equal protection of the laws means "a right guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment to the US Constitution and by the due-process clause of the Fifth Amendment".

Is equal protection of the laws a common word?

equal protection of the laws is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.