ithout due process of law; nor deny any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the law."
             Better Known as the Equal Protection Amendment, the Fourteenth Amendment is the core of Americans' civil liberty protections. It has been the basis for the Woman's Liberation Movement as well as most efforts by minority groups in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. This is not to say that the Court always recognized the equal protection clause as the most appropriate avenue for those who believed that the law had treated them unfairly. It was not until recent decades that the Court finally let up with the concept that the equal protection clause was the " last resort of constitutional arguments", as stated by Justice Holmes in 1927 (Buck v Bell). The Court's attention to race in the 1940'5 and 1950's is what prompted this new outlook.
             In the application of the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protection Clause the Court test
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