Who Does Justice Look Like? Images of the symbol of law

Follow up to Justice Scalia’s Comments on equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, via Slate – Who Does Justice Look Like? Her changing features — and skin color — over the centuries, by Dennis Curtis and Judith Resnik

  • “Justice Antonin Scalia recently reminded us that when the 14th Amendment was drafted in the 19th century, it did not focus on ensuring that women were entitled to equal protection of the law. And yet women have long been used as the symbol of the law — as the image of Justice, a figure dating back centuries and deployed in many countries to mark a courthouse.”
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