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- Affirmative Action Part 1
- Used to correct past descrimination by providing guaranteed equal employment.
- Affirmative Action Part 2
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Mid 1980's
Preference to minorities at expense of whites is permisable if history of discrimination against non-whites. - Grutter v. Bullinger
- White student challenged admission policy in University of Michigan Law School after being denied because of her race.
- Political Parties in Europe
- Highly centralized, based on political and philisophical ideology.
- U.S. Poilitical Party
- people organized formally to recruit, nominate, and elect people to office, and to achieve shared political goals.
- Defense of Marriage Act.
- Barred recognition of same sex marriage. Exclusion to Full faith and Credit Clause due to the Federal Marriage Ammendment.
- Civil Unions
- Passed in Vermont in 2000, gives same legal protection and rights as marriage
- Bowers V Hardwick
- Being vs Acting
- 13th Amendment
- Abolished Slavery
- 14th Amendment
- Defined Citizenship
- Plessy v. Ferguson
- Gave birth to the Seperate but Equal clause.
- Brown V. Board of Education
- Deemed Seperate but Equal unconstitutional regarding schools.
- 19th Amendment
- Woman can Vote
- Substantive Due Process
- Citizens have the right to be protected from arbitrary or unjust laws, laws cannot be confusing.
- Procedural Due Process
- Requires Government to follow certain standards to protect the rights of the individual.