Equal Protection Clause

Miller v. Johnson 1995 was a United States Supreme Court Case that decided whether racial gerrymandering was unconstitutional or not. This issue was very controversial, but before being able to understand how the case affected the use of racial gerrymandering, one has to understand what gerrymandering is. Every state is made up of different districts, and each district is entitled to their own votes when it comes to elections. Gerrymandering is the manipulation of district boundaries in a way that

school was discriminating against them by cutting their team and not the women’s swim team. The members claimed that this decision was in violation of Title IX, a law that prohibited discrimination on the basis of gender, along with the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. The University of Illinois made the decision to cut the men’s swim team due to budgetary limitations. Along with the men’s swim team, the men’s diving, men’s fencing, and women’s diving team were also cut for

other people (290). Not only that Affirmative Action was unfair during that time, it left out the minorities not giving them equal opportunity to receive the education they deserved. Therefore, Affirmative Action violates the Fourteenth Amendment. Affirmative Action gives privileges to certain groups and leaving out certain groups not able to succeed without special protection. There's nothing in the Constitution that says "A" should suffer a burden because society has hurt "B." Although the Blacks

in 1890, made it legal for railway companies carrying passengers in the state to “provide equal but separate accommodations for the white and colored races.” Homer Plessy, a man of mixed ancestry, refused to surrender his seat in a white compartment of a railway car and was subsequently arrested for violation of the statute. What happened to equal protection? When race is taken into account, equal protection is disclaimed. What if race is not taken into account then Affirmative Action is the problem

decide about the Humane Standards, considering the Dormant Commerce Clause also known as the Negative Commerce Clause which states that Congress also possess some rights to declare or regulate the commerce affairs in some of the states of the country, Whereas the Equal Protection Clause which is the part of the fourteenth Amendment in the US constitution clearly states that every person within the state has equal rights by the protection of law, I would have warned the company named

10/8/17 Topic: #2 14th Amendment Incorporation Doctrine Due Process Clause The intent of the fourteenth Amendment was to establish and protect equal rights for all, but most importantly-the former slaves. The fourteenth Amendment granted a unique form of citizenship to the recently freed slaves and their future families, while also containing the framework of rights and protections that would be a part of this new type of citizenship. The fourteenth Amendment redefined the entire idea

The 14 amendment is the most important in my opinion because it’s the right of equal opportunity between all races. The 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was passed quickly after the end of the Civil War. The war ended in 1865, and the amendment was ratified in 1868. One of the most important parts ofthe amendment is the presumption that states must make sure that people have equal protection of the laws. The Fourteenth Amendment was added in 1868 as one of the longest amendments to the

Because they did not makes these laws however, the amendment is valid, and should be considered constitutional. Additionally, there is a general law in Colorado that bans discrimination in general, and includes the protection for homosexuals, that would not be affected by the amendment. Furthermore, Scalia believes Kennedy’s argument is invalid because he does not use enough legal citation to provide evidence for his views, therefore the amendment should be allowed in

The Constitution itself says nothing about how it should be interpreted. It should be a “living” document meaning the document intends for it to able adapted for future generations with amendments. Every decade, there are economic and social changes so clearly our society is remarkably different than the society from centuries ago that the Constitution was written based on. There are two views of the Constitution : Originalism and Non-Originalism (aka Evolutionism). There are some different types

University of Texas. The two women, both white, filed suit, alleging that the University had discriminated against them on the basis of their race in violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. The Equal Protection Clause being a clause that allows no state to deny any person within its jurisdiction “the equal protection of the law”. At the time that this initial lawsuit was filed, the University of Texas at Austin accepted students in the top 10% of each Texas high school’s