... during the employment, without regard to their race, creed, color, or national origin." This order did not take into account the discrimination of sex, but it was the first steps towards affirmative action. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed in an attempt to further restate and ... was brought to the Supreme Court. In this case, the Duke Power Company required employees to have a high school diploma and pass a written test for advancement. The African American employees felt this was unfair, as they had not been allowed the right to public schooling in the past and ... male counte...

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... all, affirmative action IS discrimination, only in reverse. In colleges across the country, African-Americans and Hispanics are being admitted at the expense of Caucasians and Asians with higher standardized test scores and high school GPAs for the sake of diversity. This discrimination is unjust and uncalled for. A second idea against affirmative action is the idea of individualism, where the government ... Cal-Berkeley, "the admission rate exceeded 90% for all 'underrepresented' minorities with GPAs above 2.8 (a dismal B minus) or SATs over 830, well below the national average for all...

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... and obstructions." (Mason, 298). Through Jones & Laughlin Steel, the Court replaced the categorical view of the Commerce Clause with the "substantial effects" test and began considering the actual impact of an activity on interstate commerce. Requiring that intrastate activity substantially affect interstate commerce has since become a touchstone for ... to the attention of the Supreme Court in the next few years that will raise the specter of Tenth Amendment. Issues surrounding same sex marriages are likely to arise due to Hawaii and Vermont allowing these types of marriages to take pla...

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... to use affirmative action. Building upon Executive Order 8802, Kennedy instructed federal contractors to take "affirmative action to ensure that applicants are treated equally without regard to race, color, religion, sex, or national origin." This order spawned the Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. (EEOC). The EEOC, still in existence today, was created to end discrimination based on race, color ... a white medical school applicant, claimed that he had been discriminated against by the University of California's admissions program. The school twice had rejected him, wh...

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... amendment in 1920. Women and minorities were given constitutional rights that were refused to them for many years, but they continued to be discriminated against. Because of skin color or sex, people were not treated as equals causing a clear uneven playing field in education. The Civil Rights movement was making great strides when affirmative action was first introduced in the early ... issue. Opposition towards affirmative action grew after Regents of the University of California v. Bakke. Allen Bakke in 1977, was twice denied admission to a California medical school despite better gr...

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... the misguided acts of a few prejudiced individuals would affirmative action plans be reverse discrimination. Only if today's society were operating fairly toward minorities and women, would measures that take race, sex, and national origin into account be preferential treatment. Only if discrimination were securely placed in a well-distant past would affirmative action be an unneeded and drastic remedy. The commission failed ... 1971, "the Supreme Court confronted the impact of testing in Griggs verus Duke Power Company (Hacker 129)." The company had kept black employees in lower level ...

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... 1957, the Supreme Court declared that obscenity has never been constitutionally protected speech (1). In another court case cited by Hacker, the 1973 Miller vs. California case established a three-point test for judging illegal obscenity. It said that the average person, applying adult community standards, must find that the work in question: Appeals to a lewd, abnormal, or degrading interest in ... nudity, sex, or excretion Depicts or describes sexual or excretory acts in an obviously offensive way Lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value Hacker defines illegal ...

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... student (Gratz) with an outstanding record applied for graduate school at the University of Michigan and was turned down. Further investigation showed that many ethnic students with lower GPAs and test scores than Gratz were excepted into the program. Gratz then filled a lawsuit against the University of Michigan. The University's primary argument in this case was racial integration. Yet when the ... opponent to our civil rights. In fact I am writing with a humanistic zeal. I believe it to be unjust to divest any man of his constitutional rights, regardless of race, creed, or sex. Affir...

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