separate but equal is the doctrine holding that separate-but-equal facilities do not violate the equal protection clause.
separate but equal is the doctrine holding that separate-but-equal facilities do not violate the equal protection clause.
the doctrine holding that separate-but-equal facilities do not violate the equal protection clause?
separate but equal
chief justice william rehnquist wrote a concurrence agreeing to strike down the male-only admissions policy of the virginia military institute, as violative of the fourteenth amendment's equal protection clause. however, he declined to join the majority opinion's basis for using the fourteenth amendment, writing: "had virginia made a genuine effort to devote comparable public resources to a facility for women, and followed through on such a plan, it might well have avoided an equal protection violation." this rationale supported separate but equal facilities separated on the basis of sex: "it is not the 'exclusion of women' that violates the equal protection clause, but the maintenance of an all-men school without providing any—much less a comparable—institution for women ... it would be a sufficient remedy, i think, if the two institutions offered the same quality of education and were of the same overall caliber."
united states v. virginia
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the equal protection clause is a clause within the text of the fourteenth amendment to the united states constitution. the clause, which took effect in 1868, provides "nor shall any state [...] deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws".
equal protection clause