Equal protection is the constitutional guarantee:
A) that empowers Congress to regulate equally distributed commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes.
B) that laws made in pursuance of the Constitution and all treaties made under the authority of the United States shall be the equally protected as the "supreme law of the land."
C) embodied in the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
D) that grants and distributes power and responsibilities to national and state governments.

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The constitutional guarantee of equal protection is embodied in the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which ensures that no state shall deny any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. Choices A, B, and D do not accurately describe the concept of equal protection.

Equal Protection Is the Constitutional Guarantee