【单选题】The Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, ratified in 1868, prohibits state governments from denying citizens the 'equal protection of the laws'. Although precisely what the framers ...
A.
By presenting a list of specific rights, framers of the Fourteenth Amendment were attempting to provide a constitutional basis for abroad judicial protection of the principle of equal citizenship.
B.
Interpreters of the Fourteenth Amendment have not reached consensus with regard to what its framers meant by the equal protection clause.
C.
Not until after the Second World War did the Supreme Court begin to interpret the Fourteenth Amendment in a manner consistent with the principle of equal citizenship that it ex- presses.
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The framers of the Fourteenth Amendment were aware that the phrase 'equal protection of the laws' had broad implications.