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Equal Employment Opportunity Civil Rights Act
4,325 wordsI. The History of Diversity in America Known as the Melting Pot, America is a country with a more diverse population than any other. But America also has a long, painful past of discrimination that has been based on sex, race, color, disability, religion, sexual orientation and various other characteristics that stray from the average white American citizen. Through the years, government has played a major role in trying to correct the past wrongs due to discrimination by enacting legislation an...
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Strict Scrutiny Armed Forces
1,093 words... apriorism but it is within the right of every individual to express his dislike of, or objection to, the armed forces. As noted in Street v. New York, the Court wrote that it is firmly settled that under our Constitution the public expression of ideas may not be prohibited merely because the ideas are themselves offensive to some of their hearers. The second clause of the Georgia statute, which outlaws wearing a military uniform while advocating the overthrow of the government, is also uncon...
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Equal Protection And Supreme Court Cases
1,177 wordsBrown v. Board of Education (1954) stands as a turning point in Supreme Court decision making as it erased segregation in schools and set a new standard for civil rights cases. Using stricter notions of scrutiny the Court was able to revitalize the Fourteenth Amendment. However, while this case set new standards in civil rights, the Court has since had a difficult time defining their role in cases regarding racial discrimination. Washington v. Davis (1976) and Mccleskey v. Kemp (1987) are two su...
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Equal Protection And Supreme Court Cases
1,200 words... of Brown by using precedents which, according to Strauss, the Equal Protection Clause prohibits only explicit classifications... facially neutral actions that are in fact not based on race (Glennon. 486). The institutional role of the Court in this case is that the Court adheres to its policy that strict scrutiny will only be used in cases where discrimination is evident in a statute. Concerning the slippery slope that the Court in cautious about, by favoring a minority who did not gain an a...
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Equal Protection Clause 14 Th Amendment
1,913 wordsThe Constitution has survived two World Wars, a Civil War, and even slavery. This piece of paper was written to limit government in our lives and proclaim our rights as individuals. Through the course of time, Amendments have been added to aid in current events that were not foreseen when the Constitution was originally written. Sixteen presidents after the Constitution was written, slavery was abolished and the Thirteenth Amendment was passed... Three years later came the Equal Protection claus...
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Seven Dirty Words Communications Decency Act
2,659 wordsReno v. ACLU The conflict began on February 8, 1996, when President Clinton signed the CDA law and ACLU, along with EPIC and eighteen other plaintiffs, immediately filed its legal challenge. ACLU v. Reno represents the first legal challenge to censorship provisions of the Communications Decency Act (CDA). The CDA makes it a crime, punishable by up to two years in jail and / or a $ 250, 000 fine, for anyone to engage in speech that is? indecent? or? patently offensive? on computer networks if the...
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Equal Protection Clause Prima Facie
4,068 wordsTHE Reverse Discrimination REVERSE DISCRIMINATION: THE REPRECUSSIONS OF AFFIRMATIVE ACTION Discrimination in employment has been an issue that has plagued our society throughout history. At the turn of this century it was acceptable to advertise job openings and specifically state that people of a certain race, color, religion, gender, or national origin need not apply. A lot has changed over the last 100 years. The proverbial pendulum has swung in the direction of federal protection of certain ...
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