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Equal Protection, the Fourteenth Amendment's Quiet Revolution

Equal Protection, the Fourteenth Amendment's Quiet Revolution

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Some of the most powerful sentences in American law are also the shortest. A close reading of the Fourteenth Amendment's sixteen words on the equal protection of the laws, what each word is doing, why the framers chose person and not citizen, and how a clause written against the Black Codes became, a century later, the engine of Brown v. Board.

Field Notes on the Republic was written and read by Michael Fowler. It was produced for Quorum (Supply Co.), an American civic purveyor. Music is "When Johnny Comes Marching Home," performed by the U.S. Military Academy Band, West Point.

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