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CHAPTER 6
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• Powers or privileges guaranteed to individuals and protected from arbitrary removal at the hands of government or individuals
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• When the gov treats classes of people differently the treatment must be reasonable not arbitrary
• Suspect classifications – the questionable way of classifying people
• Subject to strict scrutiny• “Similarly situated”
– A state cannot set different ages at which men and women legally become adults
– A law that punishes males but not females for statutory rape is permissible; men and women are not “similarly situated” w/ respect to sexual relations
– Selective Service – men have to register for the draft but women don’t
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14th AMENDMENT
• EQUAL PROTECTION CLAUSE• Has become the vehicle for more
expansive Constitutional interpretations
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• upheld constitutionality of slavery and forbade Congress from banning it in the new states
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• 13th – no involuntary servitude• 14th – granted citizenship• 15th – extended suffrage to African
Americans
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• Southern states circumvented the law
• Instituted:– Literacy tests– White primary– Poll taxes– Grandfather clause– Denying access
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• SCOTUS endorsed “separate but equal” making segregation legal
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• Formed in 1909• Goal: win legal battles w/o having to
change public opinion or form broad political alliances
• Targeted school segregation• For education to be equal, it had to be
equally available
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• Campaign in the courts– Prove schools are separate; NOT equal– Inherently unconstitutional
• CJ Earl Warren:– “in the field of public education the doctrine of
‘separate but equal’ has no place” because “separate educational facilities are inherently unequal”
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• De jure – by law• De facto – in practice
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• The decision led to the widespread use of busing to end segregation by federal judges in the South.
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• Events led to women’s rights– 1848 – Seneca Falls– 1920 – 19th Amendment– WWII – entrance into workforce– 1963 – Equal Pay Act– 1963 – Feminine Mystique– 1964 – Civil Rights Act – 1973 – Roe v. Wade
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• "the unseen, yet unbreakable barrier that keeps minorities and women from rising to the upper rungs of the corporate ladder, regardless of their qualifications or achievements."
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• “equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex”
• NEVER PASSED!
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• Bowers v. Hardwick – SC upheld state sodomy laws
• Lawrence v. Texas – overturned• DOMA – no state would have to give
legal status to same-sex marriage in another state
• DADT overturned
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BENEFITS• Favored immigration status, hospital visitation
rights, certain tax exemptions, the right to adopt a partner’s child, extension of health and dental insurance coverage
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• Tradition – must preserve the vital institution of marriage that is designed to ensure a society’s future through raising children
• Morally wrong• Contribute to the breakdown of American family culture
= social problems like violent crime and teen pregnancy
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• Attempts to prevent discrimination by forcing employers and universities to hire a certain percentage of minority groups or to give them compensatory preferential treatment
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• Such programs include:– Recruitment– Preferential treatment– Quotas for women, minorities, and people
with disabilities in education– Employment– Awarding of government contracts
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• Upheld affirmative action but ruled against the practice of setting aside quota spots for particular groups