b.) One possible factor that led the court to entirely reverse its earlier interpretation despite no change in the words could be a shift in societal attitudes and values. Over the 60-year period between the Plessy decision and the Brown decision, there may have been significant changes in public opinion regarding racial equality and segregation. These changing attitudes could have influenced the court's decision to reinterpret the "Equal Protection" Clause of the 14th Amendment in a manner that rejected the separate but equal doctrine established in Plessy.
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