EQUAL PROTECTION OF THE LAWS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does equal protection of the laws mean? 

• EQUAL PROTECTION OF THE LAWS (noun)
  The noun EQUAL PROTECTION OF THE LAWS has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: EQUAL PROTECTION OF THE LAWS used as a noun is very rare.

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• EQUAL PROTECTION OF THE LAWS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("equal protection of the laws" is a kind of...):

civil right (right or rights belonging to a person by reason of citizenship including especially the fundamental freedoms and privileges guaranteed by the 13th and 14th amendments and subsequent acts of Congress including the right to legal and social and economic equality)

Domain category:

jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)