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In Brown v. Board of Education (1954), the Supreme Court ruled that schools segregated by race were unconstitutional. In response, some states opposed to desegregation passed laws to prevent the desegregation of schools. However, the Supreme Court again ruled in Cooper v. Aaron (1958) that its 1954 decision was binding on all states, regardless of conflicting state laws. Which clause in the Constitution allowed the Supreme Court to make this 1958 ruling?

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Answer:

The Equal protection clause.

Explanation:

The doctrine of separate but igual is unconstituional.

Marbury v Madison helped as a background for this case, since the Supremacy Clause of Article VI is the supreme law for the whole land.

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