The Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, ratified in 1868, prohibits state governments from denying citizens the "equal protection of the laws".

1868年批准的《美国宪法第十四修正案》禁止州政府剥夺公民享有“法律平等保护”的权利。

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And it said each southern state must approve an amendment to the United States Constitution that gave citizenship to blacks.

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Seventy-two years later the nineteenth amendment to the United States Constitution gave women the right to vote.

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She worked tirelessly to get Congress and the states to approve an amendment to the United States Constitution that would provide equal rights for women.

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The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that the California ban on gay marriage violates the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution.

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The majority thus sanctions a highly intrusive and unjustified type of search, one meeting neither the warrant requirement nor the reasonableness requirement of the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution.

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Such laws vary from place to place, but all countries, even the United States with its famous first amendment to the constitution, accept that individual freedom must be limited in some respects at least.

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