Ihave a standard 52 card deck. one by one, i draw cards from the deck and place them face up in front of you (without putting them back). at any point, you may stop me and say a color. if the next two cards i draw both have that color, you win. otherwise, you lose. what is the optimal strategy?

The optimal strategy would be to wait until the last three cards to reduce the unknown probability.

Explanation:

This is a question about probability. Each time you draw a card from the deck, probabilities change: therefore you have to observe which cards have been drawn already. That is the information you need to make a guess about the remaining cards of the deck. If you wait until the last three and you've been observing how many cards of each color were face up on the table, you can make a secure guess about which cards are left for you to pick from.

facts: the 14th amendment

the 14th amendment addresses citizenship rights and equal protection of the laws.

the 14th amendment was intended to protect the rights of former slaves after the american civil war.

the 14th amendment was approved by congress in june of 1866 and ratified by the states on july 9, 1868.

the 14th amendment establishes that all persons born in the united states are citizens and are guaranteed all the rights of citizenship.

the 14th amendment establishes that the law protects all citizens equally.

in this case the passage of the 14th amendment   that was violated was the last part in which it states that there is equal protection of the law.