Question

American government plz help! Giving brainlist :D

Answer 1

Legislation often involves creating classifications that either help advantage or disadvantage one certain group of people, but not another. For example, states allow 20-year-olds to drive, but don't let 12-year-olds drive. Poor single parents receive government financial aid that is denied to millionaires. Now obviously, the Equal Protection Clause cannot mean that government is obligated to treat all people exactly the same. Only, at most, that it is obligated to treat people the same if they are in similar situations.Over recent decades, the Supreme Court has developed a three-rowed approach to analysis under the Equal Protection Clause. Classifications involving suspect classifications including race, are subject to closer scrutiny. A rationale for this closer scrutiny was suggested by the Court in a famous annotation in the 1938 case of Carolene Products v. United States.