Explain the provisions of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

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The Fourteenth Amendment provides that no state shall "deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process or law; nor deny to any person . . . the equal protection of the laws." Thus, any law that distinguishes between two classes of persons (e.g., men and women, wealthy and poor, minorities and non-minorities) is subject to attack as failing to provide constitutionally mandated equal protection. Today, all laws that make a distinction between persons based on race, ethnicity, gender, religion, sexual orientation, or national origin are subject to constitutional scrutiny, even when they are designed to rectify the discrimination of the past, because of the provisions of the Fourteenth Amendment.

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