Constitution of Connecticut (2025 publisher edition) — Amendment V

Publisher edition notice: The publisher identifies this compilation as revised to January 1, 2025. It preserves the annotated original 1965 text and all ratified amendments, alongside the Revisors' unofficial convenience version incorporating extant amendments. The latter does not supersede the original Constitution and amendments; later changes have not been independently verified.

Amendment V Ratified amendment and publisher annotations.

ARTICLE V.*
*Adopted November 27, 1974.
(Equal protection. No segregation or discrimination.)
Section 20 of article first of the Constitution is amended to read as follows:
1
No person shall be denied the equal protection of the law nor be subjected to seg-
regation or discrimination in the exercise or enjoyment of his or her civil or political
rights because of religion, race, color, ancestry, national origin or sex.
1 Amended by Article XXI., of the Amendments to the Constitution of the State of Connecticut.