The Fourteenth Amendment's equal protection clause was enacted to ensure that all people have the same right within the law regardless of where they came from or the color of their skin.
This later on lead to the principle, that Even Government officials will have to be subjected to law just as ordinary citizen do. Which lead to the creation of check and balance system
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General Douglas MacArthur was the Supreme Allied Commander in the Pacific during WW2. He graduated from the United States Military Academy or West Point. During the 50s he command all American Troops in the Korean Peninsula
until being relieved of his duties in 1951.
Population grew significantly mostly due to reproduction, but there was a significant number of immigrants, Scots-Irish and Germans, coast was more wealthy than west.
He was 6'4 so 76.8 inches.