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Originally Posted by mcp1810
That was the first part of the Fourteenth. As far as the feds, we go back to the Fifth:
Does not limit these protections to citizens.
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Fifth Amendment guarantees due process, as does the "citizenship" protection of the Fourteenth. Since the "equal protection of the laws for persons" segment of the Fourteenth is separate from the due process segment of the Fourteenth, it implies (under a strict reading) that they are not the same thing. So again, strictly parsing the text, the states may not deprive equal protection, but the national government is not so mentioned for persons.
I'm not advocating this
per se, I'm just taking your original argument to one logical end....