The Original Understanding of “Equal Protection of the Laws”

Authors

John P. Frank, Yale University
Robert F. Munro, Indiana University School of Law

Publication Title

Washington University Law Quarterly

Abstract

This Article reports on the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth amendments and their legislative evolutions, and also looks at the historical environment in which the equal protection clause was developed, in order to gain an understanding of how that clause was originally read.

Recommended Citation

John P. Frank and Robert F. Munro, The Original Understanding of “Equal Protection of the Laws”, 1972 Wash. U. L. Q. 421 (1972).
Available at: https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/law_lawreview/vol1972/iss3/4