The fourteenth amendment says no state shall deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws, nor deprive them of life, liberty or property without due process of law. So how do we get from this very abstract liberty to sort of cash it out to a more kind of retail level, specific rights? I think most of us prefer to think of these as unenumerated rights. And some would say they're not enumerated in the constitution at all. That drives us on to the million dollar questionriht, which is, how on earth do we distinguish between the unenumerate rights that are in and theUnenumerated Rights that are out?
Not explicitly, no. But neither is the right to travel from New York to New Jersey. NYU law professor Kenji Yoshino explains our unenumerated rights.
This episode was produced by Victoria Chamberlin, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Paul Mounsey, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.
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