Original sentence: " In the broadest view, the Equal Protection Clause is part of the United States' continuing attempt to determine what its professed commitment to the proposition that "all men are created equal" should mean in practice.After its enactment, the Constitution also protected rights from abridgement by state governments—henceforth they could not (among other things) deprive people of the equal protection of the laws.Before its enactment, the Constitution protected individual rights only from invasion by the federal government.More concretely, the Equal Protection Clause, along with the rest of the Fourteenth Amendment, marked a great shift in American constitutionalism.What exactly that means, of course, has been the subject of great debate; and the story of the Equal Protection Clause is the gradual explication of its meaning
Edited sentence: " Bingham went on to explain that this meant under his amendment that "no State should deny to any such person any right secured to him by the laws and treaties of the United States or of such State.Bingham equated "equal protection of the laws" to the words of the Magna Charta 46th clause: "we will sell to no man, we will not deny or delay to any man right or justice.Doe where the court found the state of Texas was required under the equal protection clause to educate children of illegal aliens who were not "legally admitted.The Fourteenth's author, John A.This has lead to such controversial decisions as Plyler v.Under the true meaning of the clause there was no violation because the State of Texas was not denying alien children a right that had been secured to them.Unfortunately, the court has used the clause to do just the opposite: secure rights to persons for which no rights have been secured to them by State law, treaty or the Constitution