Question

State and Federal sources for equal protection?

Answer 1

No state should deny to any person within its jurisdiction "the equal protection of the laws according to the Equal Protection Clause; which is part of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution and took effect in 1868. This law applied to the federal government but after the Supreme Court’s ruling held in Bolling v. Sharpe (1954) the equal protection requirements apply to state and local governments through the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment.