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Behind the Lines in CA wrote: The "persons" the 14th Amendment sought to protect were not the Citizens of the several States. They already had such protections as Citizens, via their respective State Constitutions.
Go read Dred Scott and you'll have a better understanding of the unfortunate class of "persons" the 14th Amendment was addressing.
-behind the times-


Good lord....

After the repeal of slavery, there supposedly were no 'classes' of persons under our constitution.