Resumen
Law, in the U.S., clamps influences of the abstraction, equal protection of the law, to profitability. Understanding this interaction requires some history of equal protection in the U.S. This history falls on the transition clocked when the British brought the contradiction of involuntary servitude in a free society to international light in the early 19th century. That children and felons represent groups people must treat differently under the law easily carries restrictions to the concept of equal protection. Questions from other groups have resulted in far more confusion. In the past, equal protection was not violated when sex and age served to disenfranchise voters, or when men alone paid poll taxes. After the prodding of several civil rights amendments, equal protection has become sufficient to exclude most of these instances of legislative discrimination. Equal protection has labeled an evolving concept. Scientists once published that "women excel in fickleness, in inconstancy, absence of thought and logic, and incapacity to reason." Certainly biases of that day affected outcomes, both in industry and under the law.