The Case Of Richard And Mildred Loving

Before the Civil Rights Movement, everything was segregated and one race was viewed as more powerful than all the other races. If there were interracial couples before the movement, the power of the institutions would easily punish them and justified it through religion and supremacy (Westlaw, 2015). I believe interracial couples are key to becoming a society that is more open minded and diverse. If people saw that we have many more commonalities than differences, than they would be more open to having a diverse community. Implications for the target group after this law was overruled was another step towards equality between races. All races were now free to marry outside their race without being arrested and kicked out of their homes. It is baffling to think about the extent some people would go through to destroy a happy couple because their skin color does not match. I believe our country has come a long way since Loving v Virginia, but we still have improvements to make to somehow end racism. Loving v Virginia is important because it implies that all races are equal. Before this ruling, it was looked down upon for a Caucasian to marry outside their race since they were the “superior” race, but now it is much more common than anyone would have figured it would be 50+ years ago. Racial color blindness is key when discussing Loving v Virginia and interracial marriages. If someone were to say they do not see color, then it would completely disregard the struggle that the Loving couple (and other interracial couples) faced. Just like we discussed in class, racial color blindness tends to disregard what African Americans have gone through and ignores institutional racism. It is very easy for people who have not been discriminated against to say they do not see color, I believe these people tend to forget about institutional racism since it does not affect them (Mulder,

The court also referred to its 1955 decision in “Naim v. Naim” as stating the reasons supporting the validity of the anti-miscegenation laws. In Naim, the state court concluded that the State's legitimate purposes were "to preserve the racial integrity of its citizens," and to prevent "the corruption of blood," "a mongrel breed of citizens," and "the obliteration of racial pride," obviously an endorsement of the doctrine of White Supremacy. The court also reasoned that marriage has traditionally been subject to state regulation without federal intervention, and consequently, the regulation of marriage should be left to exclusive state control by the Tenth Amendment.

In a quick observation, it may be easy to observe that the Constitution of Virginia is much larger in length and detail than the United States Constitution. There are many differences between these two constitutions besides the authors or contributors being that James Madison contributed to both, however, he was not the complete author of the Constitution of Virginia (Constitutions of Virginia). Both Constitutions have the same idea in which it holds three separate branches of government, however, differences include the detail and content brought amongst the articles. Differences include, but are not limited to, division of the three branches, extra articles and policies, and the amendments. They

The Supreme Court’s decision finalized the questions of whether states have the right to pass laws treating marriages differently based upon sex, and if states have to acknowledge the marriage of same-sex couples who were married in another state. On a 5-4 decision, the Court determined that the Fourteenth Amendment requires states to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples because they cannot be treated differently than opposite sex couples. The court also determined that states have to recognize same-sex marriages the same way they do with opposite-sex. However, the Supreme Court did not create a law about same sex marriage, it just stated that

The Commonwealth of Virginia v. Allen (609 S.E.2d 4, Va. 2005) was a fascinating case. The case focused on two expert witness testifying for the state and the other for the defendant, and if they acted and behaved ethically during the proceedings. Successive information will be addressed to prove the thought process behind my opinion given in this case. The APA code of ethics and specialty guidelines will be used to support my reasoning. Furthermore, they will serve as a baseline of boundaries within the profession to determine the expert witness’ influences to the case as well as their behavior within the profession.

The United States Supreme Court was, and still is today, the important backbone of America’s judicial system. This court deals with numerous cases throughout the year and keeps the country and government fair with its decisions. However, being responsible for giving justice where it is due, the Court is sometimes faced with hard choices that will make a lasting impression on the U.S. and its people. In the case of Loving v. Virginia, it did just that. As a Supreme Court landmark case, Loving v. Virginia definitely indicated a critical moment of change in civil rights for America and interracial couples everywhere.

In the case of Barron v. Baltimore in 1833, the Supreme Court ruled that the Bill of Rights are just restrictions on the federal government alone. To prevent the states from limiting rights granted to the citizens in the Constitution, the 14th Amendment was passed. The 14th Amendment was adopted on July 9, 1868 as one of the Reconstruction Amendments. The amendment addresses citizenship rights and equal protection of the laws and was proposed in response to issues related to former slaves after the American Civil War. It was severely contested, especially by the states of the Confederacy that were defeated and were forced to ratify it in order to regain representation in Congress. The amendment’s first section includes many clauses, but one important one is the Equal Protection Clause. This clause requires each state to provide equal protection under the law to all people, including non-citizens, within its jurisdiction. The clause has also been the basis for many decisions rejecting irrational or unnecessary discrimination against people belonging to various groups. Eventually, selective incorporation occurred in which the civil liberties granted in the Bill of Rights were applied to the states on a case-by-case basis through the 14th Amendment. Now, the same liberties that were granted to the federal government, were now enacted with the state governments. Same-sex marriage is one of these fundamental rights, rights that require a high degree of protection from government

The percentage of the white male population with a high school diploma in 1964 was 27.6%, while only 14.6% of black males had a high school diploma. This was because black people had a harder time getting into schools. Judgment because of a persons race should not be allowed, so people decided to take it to court. Not to mention, Supreme Court cases have really driven people's need and want for civil rights: Loving v. Virginia (1967), Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg (1971), Bakke v. University of California (1978).

With the growing racial unrest sweeping the U.S., and particularly the South in the 1960s, The Supreme Court decided that the protections of the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution applied equally to blacks and the whites that loved them. The Loving vs. Virginia case ended the abominable assumption that the state has a right to intrude upon the private lives and affections of its citizens, to the point of dictating to them who they were allowed to love.

Richard and Mildred Loving were arrested in 1959 for violating South Carolina’s anti-miscegenation statue, barring interracial marriage between people of color and whites. The Lovings, who had to travel hundreds of miles to Washington DC to legally wed in an attempt to appease South Carolina law, were charged and found guilty for "cohabiting as man and wife, against the peace and dignity of the Commonwealth" (Loving v. Virginia, 388 U.S. 1 (1967). As part of their sentence, the Lovings were forced to leave the state of South Carolina and relocate in Washington D.C. After experiencing the difficulties of living so far away from their friends and family, Mildred Loving wrote to the American Civil Liberties Union who ultimately set the legal proceedings under the argument that the

The counter-argument gave by Justice Harry L. Carrico: “argued that the Lovings' case was not a violation of the Equal Protection Clause because both the white and the non-white spouse were punished equally for the crime of miscegenation” was lacked of insight and proper thoughts, it’s not about both getting the same sentence because they violated the inter-racial marriage law, it’s about why we even have that law in the first place. Just like what Chief Justice Earl Warren said:” the freedom to marry, or not marry, a person of another race resides with the individual, and cannot be infringed by the State.”, God has created us with a hope that we can love and treasure all of his creation,

Justice Warren in the unanimous opinion of the Court, states that the anti-miscegenation statutes cannot stand constituently with the Fourteenth Amendment and violated equal protection. Virginia argued that its miscegenation statutes punished both white and black participants in an interracial marriage equally and served the legitimate state purpose of preserving the “racial integrity” of its citizens by referencing the decision in Naim v. Naim, 197 Va. 80, 87 S.E.2d 749 (1955). The Court rejected the Virginia’s contention and stated: “The clear and central purpose of the Fourteenth Amendment was to eliminate all official state sources of invidious racial discrimination in the States.” The “equal application” argument put forward by Virginia

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Mildred Loving was born on July 22, 1939 in Central Point, Virginia. She was African-American and a Native American descent who married a white man named Richard Loving and had three kids. Mildred Loving and her husband were both activists and both defeated Virginia’s ban on interracial marriage in 1967. The couple met in high school, started dating, and once Mildred became pregnant at age 18, they decided to get married. The couple were not aloud to get married in their home state, because of the Virginia Racial Integrity Act of 1924, so they drove to Washington D.C and got married there. A few weeks later when they returned, two sheriffs showed up at their house and told them they had violated the law of the Virginia Racial Integrity Act. The act prohibited

-In 1967 in the Loving v. Virginia case, the US Supreme Court struck down all laws prohibiting interracial marriages.