Specific prohibition against discrimination:
A. 15th am: voting
B. 19th am: women’s suffrage
C. 26h am: 18 yo
- general prohibitions: equal protection (14th)
A. applies only to states
B. due process (5) against arbitrary legislation; the 5th is interpreted as the same as the 14th b/c the 5′th has a substantive component of equal protection
- P&Is of state citizenship 4.2
- federal equal protection: implied in the dp clause of the 5th am. see state e.p.
- state equal protection: 14th am. “no state shall make or enforce any law that will deny any person w/in its jx the ep of the laws”
A. state action?
B. discriminatory?
1. facially
2. as applied (being administered in a purposefully discriminatory way)
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