Fourteenth Amendment
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...maintained the views outlined above until the 1930s, when drastic reinterpretations were made. (For factors producing the change, see Supreme Court, United States .) The court thereafter permitted state legislatures to make economic regulations without...suppress any religious establishment or to deny freedom of speech, of the press, and of peaceable assembly. With the new attitude of the court, the equal protection clause became one of the main weapons of those who were determined that African Americans...