Document Type
Article
Media Type
Text
Abstract
To set the stage for this symposium on emerging issues in equal protection, this article introduces the reader to the historic cultural and philosophical origins of the notion of equality in western civilization, the antebellum state jurisprudence on equal protection under law, and the evolution of the meaning and use of the equal protection clause from the passage of the Fourteenth Amendment to the present.
First Page
425
Last Page
456
Publication Date
7-1-2004
Department
College of Law
ISSN
0734-1490
Language
eng
Publisher
Northern Illinois University Law Review
Recommended Citation
Schlam, Lawrence
(2004)
"Equality in Culture and Law: An Introduction to the Origins and Evolution of the Equal Protection Principle,"
Northern Illinois University Law Review: Vol. 24:
Iss.
3, Article 4.
Suggested Citation
Lawrence Schlam, Equality in Culture and Law: An Introduction to the Origins and Evolution of the Equal Protection Principle, 24 N. Ill. U. L. Rev. 425 (2004).
