Equality before the law, also known as equality under the law, equality in the eyes of the law, legal equality, or legal egalitarianism, is the principle that all people must be equally protected by the law.

The Equal Protection Clause is part of the first section of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.

The Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is an amendment that was adopted in 1868 and addresses various aspects of United States citizenship, due process, and equal protection under the law.

Thurgood Marshall was an American lawyer and the first African American justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.

The United States Constitution is the supreme law of the United States of America.

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