... of affirmative action in college admissions, and its relation to employment and narrowing social inequalities between minorities and majorities, however, is inherently unjust. In this paper, I will attempt to explain why affirmative action is not only unjust, but also a misguided policy which will reap results contrary to its ultimate goals. Affirmative action, it seams to many White people and a few minorities ... , is hypocritically unjust for fairly obvious reasons. For one, why would any social policy aimed at providing equal treatment for all people regardless of race, differentiate...

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... views with respect to the Constitution, which was the cause for Lincoln's idea of a gradual extinction of constitution and not an immediate emancipation, which separated him from abolitionists, and explained why he was a part of the more moderate Whig Party. In his famous Cooper Union speech on February 27th, 1860, Lincoln expressed his agreement with the Founding Fathers that slavery is ... ...

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... the amorphous, heterogeneous American (as opposed to European) working class. A hint of this pessimism/realism is suggested in his inclusion in "City Trenches" of a quote by Engels, writing in 1893 why there was "No Large Socialist Party in America" as follows: "Then and more especially, immigration, which divides the workers into two groups: The native born and the foreigners, and the ... ...

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