... rights laws. From this point, civil rights developed in two ways: expanding its definition to include victims of discrimination other than African Americans and this definition also became positive (Lowi, Ginsberg, and Shepsle 146). This is where affirmative action became an official term. Thereby, the term affirmative action was created by judicial decisions, congressional statutes, and administrative agency actions. Affirmative action ... . This was due to the fact that the court only rejected the procedures of the institution because it used both quotas and separate systems of admissi...

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