How Should Congress Receive Equal Protection Clauses?

In the United States’ past, many groups have been victims of discrimination; Native Americans, African American, women, and many other peoples have felt the sharp pain of intense hate and oppression. Naturally, they have struggled to alleviate those constant, stabbing pains. Fortunately over time, the oppressed have made many successful attempts at teaching the oppressors the error of their way, and their efforts have led to Congress instituting legal restrictions against discrimination. The Fourteenth Amendment was one vital set of restrictions that introduced three clauses — the Equal Protection Clause, the Due Process Clause, and the Citizenship Clause — that Congress thought to be vital for the protection of many groups of people.
The Equal Protection Clause is the most well-known of the three, possibly because of the importance of the statement the clause makes. According to the clause, all people of the United States should receive “equal protection of the law”. When this statement was written, it was established no one should be unfairly treated by the law and all …show more content…
Under the Citizenship Clause, Congress established that all persons “born or naturalized in the United States… are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside” and that no state can enforce laws abridging the rights of those citizens. This amendment was important to Congress because it ensured that these declarations went unchallenged; before the declaration of the amendment, these rights had already been present, but the laws protecting such rights were susceptible to being overturned or undone, and this was too risky. If the laws could be overturned, then African Americans and other groups could legally have their citizenship taken away, and without the accompanied rights, they would be at the mercy of the state and the hateful people within