No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor to deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
It was unsuccessfully argued that since anyone could get married, that that offered equal protection, even if the state could restrict who they could marry. That didn't hold up in court for the anti-miscegenation laws that said a black person couldn't marry a white person.
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14th Amendment
Which bit of it makes what necessary?
I presume you're referring to this?
Re: 14th Amendment
No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor to deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
It was unsuccessfully argued that since anyone could get married, that that offered equal protection, even if the state could restrict who they could marry. That didn't hold up in court for the anti-miscegenation laws that said a black person couldn't marry a white person.