Equal Protection of the laws signifies that “all persons subject to legislation should be treated alike, under like circumstances and conditions, both in the privileges conferred and liabilities imposed.
The guarantee does not require that persons or things different in fact be treated in law as though they were the same. What it prohibits is class legislation which discriminates against some and favors others when both are similarly situated or circumstanced.
Where there are reasonable grounds for so doing, persons or their properties may be grouped into classes to each of which special legal rights o liabilities may be attached.
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