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US Constitution, Fourteenth Amendment |
Equal protection of the law, guaranteed by the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments, and reinforced by hundreds of local, state and federal civil rights law;
Amendment XIV, Article 1
All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
The right to privacy, or "the right to be left alone," guaranteed by the Fourth, Fifth, Ninth and Fourteenth Amendments;
Freedom of speech and association is protected under the First Amendment.
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