The Law and Me
In 1964 and 1965 President Johnson signed the Civil Rites acts, and these acts included affirmative action. While affirmative action may have been needed then it is now superfluous. Affirmative action has been questioned several times. One time was Bakke verses University of California Regents; Bakke claimed he wasn’t admitted to University California-Davis because he was white. Also prop 209 passed in California in 1996. You have the civil rites acts of 64 and 65. Affirmative action has recently been challenged at the University of Michigan. These are just several times that Affirmative Action has come into to play.In case of Bakke verses University of California Regents, Bakke attempted twice to enroll in the University of California Medical School at Davis unsuccessfully. “The school reserved sixteen places in each entering class of one hundred for "qualified" minorities, as part of the university's affirmative action program”(www.plhs.esu3.org). In other words they wouldn’t always take the 100 most qualified people, since 16 students entering the school must be a minority. “Bakke's qualifications exceeded those of any of the minority students admitted in
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