The Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution provides that U.S. citizens are citizens of the United States before they are citizens of the states in which they reside, and therefore no state law can invalidate or take priority over a federal law or constitutional right. The formal name for this provision is
A) the establishment clause
B) separation of church and state
C) stare decisis
D) equal protection clause
E) Blackstonian Doctrine

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The provision described in the question is the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, which establishes that no state can deny any person within its jurisdiction equal protection of the laws. The other choices listed are not applicable to the described provision.

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