When the 14th Amendment, equal protection clause was enacted, the galleries in the Senate were segregated. Now we have integration.

The 'takings' clause of the Fifth Amendment is for conservatives what the equal protection clause of the 14th is for liberals.

There is no proportional representation requirement in the Equal Protection Clause.

There is no proportional representation requirement in the Equal Protection Clause.

Full participation in government and society has been a basic right of the country symbolizing the full citizenship and equal protection of all.

It wouldn't be fair to say that conservatives cherish property the way liberals cherish equality. But it would be fair to say that the takings clause is the conservatives' recipe for judicial activism just as they say liberals have misused the equal protection clause.