The Equal Protection clause in the United States of America’s Constitution has long been a harbinger for controversy, in which events for the lesser of the two opponents always deteriorates before it remotely improves. With this in mind, flashback to the days of the writing and ratifying of the 14th amendment. The Caucasian people of that past world, would not and could not refer to themselves as anything other than superior to their African-American counterparts. When the oppressed and elite came to terms as equal, the elite could not stand it. Therefore creating the turn of events that led to segregation to keep the majority still regarding themselves as the cream of the crop and the minority …show more content…
There was much social tension in that world of the past. Segregation ran amuck because one party could not equalize themselves with the other. Essentially, this clause was created to relive the friction and make everyone the same. A summary of this clause is as follows, it “means that states must apply the law equally and cannot discriminate against people or groups of people arbitrarily” (Bill of Rights Institute). How does this even remotely relate to cyborgs of the future you ask? Well would the law still encompass humans who are twenty to thirty percent metal and silicon? This would be a problem for our predecessors to make either out of compassion for these once-lame personages or fear for what they can do. The commencement of the separation, segregation, and oppression was created out of authority, will this forthcoming subject be the same? Will these metal people of the United States be given the rights they deserve or turned into some sort of lab experiment where mad scientists poke and prod at them? Where will the line be …show more content…
However, the Equal Protection clause was created to provide rights for the people, to the people, and by the people, creating harmony. Even though that this quandary does not pertain to today’s day in age, tackling the notion before it reveals itself in a negative light is the proper way to go about it. For, your Grandparents with hearing aids and metal hips are still as human as you are and have access to the same rights and privileges as you. As it states in worn calligraphy in one of the most important documents of the USA “no state shall...deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws” I intend to hold those vampiric politicians in the big house to their words (Law2). They are still people. Even when advances are made and those seemingly just people are upgraded to keep with the changing of the centuries they will always, and still be, simply