The Fourteenth Amendment and equality under the law

We the People

National Constitution Center

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🗓️ 3 November 2016

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Elizabeth Wydra of the Constitutional Accountability Center and Earl Maltz of Rutgers University discuss how Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump approach abortion, same-sex marriage, affirmative action, and more. Get the latest constitutional news, and continue the conversation, on Facebook and Twitter. We want to know what you think of the podcast! Email us at [email protected]. Please subscribe toWe the PeopleandLive at America’s Town Hall on iTunes, Stitcher, or your favorite podcast app. We the People is a member of Slate’s Panoply network. Check out the full roster at Panoply.fm. Despite our congressional charter, the National Constitution Center is a private nonprofit; we receive little government support, and we rely on the generosity of people around the country who are inspired by our nonpartisan mission of constitutional debate and education. Please consider becoming a member to support our work, including this podcast. Visit constitutioncenter.org to learn more. This show was engineered by Jason Gregory and produced by Nicandro Iannacci. Research was provided by Lana Ulrich and Tom Donnelly. The host of We the People is Jeffrey Rosen.

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0:00.0	I'm Jeffrey Rosen, president and CEO of the National Constitution Center, and welcome to We
0:08.6	the People, a weekly show of constitutional debate.
0:12.0	The National Constitution Center is the only institution in America chartered by Congress
0:16.6	to disseminate information about the U.S. Constitution on a nonpartisan basis.
0:21.7	I did that as enthusiastically as possible because several of you have
0:24.2	written in and said you liked the enthusiastic rendition of our wonderful
0:28.2	Congressional Charter. I'm so glad to be back and so thrilled to welcome you to
0:32.1	the final installment in our series on the
0:35.1	candidates and the Constitution where we compare the proposals of
0:39.6	Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump to the text and history of the Constitution.
0:44.3	But before we do that, a brief plug and plea.
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1:03.0	forward slash we the people podcast all lower case
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1:08.7	y forward slash we the people podcast okay we now turn to the fourth We the People Podcast.
1:13.4	Okay, we now turn to the 14th amendment to the Constitution,
1:16.5	which guarantees, among other things,
1:18.1	the equal protection of the laws.
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