Ratified in 1868, Congress and the courts have applied the 14th Amendment's Equal Protection Clause to many aspects of public life over the past 150 years. The Chicago Manual of Style 15th edition provides examples and rules for many, but not all, types of Canadian government documents.Petitioners argue that the Chicago and Oak Park laws violate the right to keep and bear arms for two reasons. The Fourteenth Amendment (Amendment XIV) to the United States Constitution was adopted on July 9, 1868, as one of the Reconstruction Amendments. All persons lawfully in this country shall abide 'in any state' on an equality of legal privileges with all citizens under nondiscriminatory laws. We provide services to Canadians visiting and living in the United States. For each twelvemonth period, an eligible employee may accrue up to forty hours of paid leave and forty hours of paid sick leave. We'll fill out this notion of "insufficient reason" in the coming weeks, that's the core doctrinal question in equal protection law. 2These clauses appear in the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments, the former applicable to. For each twelvemonth period, an eligible employee may accrue up to forty hours of paid leave and forty hours of paid sick leave.