Historical Meaning Behind ‘Equal Protection of the Laws’
“That all citizens shall be forever equal, subject to like penalties for like crimes and no other.” –John A. Bingham (May 14, 1868) Justice Scalia speaking of the Fourteenth Amendments Equal Protection Clause to students at UC Hastings College of the Law in September 2010 remarked, “nobody thought it was directed against sex discrimination.” Scalia [...]