Does the Fourteenth Amendment require the States to treat all people as equal under the law?

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No. It requires the states to treat all citizens - born or naturalized - equally under the law. Although all people are created by God and afforded basic human rights, the specific rights enunciated in the Constitution and its amendments are guaranteed to citizens only.

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