On June 28, 1978 the issue of Affirmative Action landed in the Supreme Court. The landmark Supreme Court case imposed limitations on affirmative action to ensure that providing greater opportunities for minorities did not come at the expense of the rights of the majority-affirmative action was .
unfair if it led to reverse discrimination. The case involved the Univ. of California, Davis, Medical School, .
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which had two separate admissions pools, one for standard applicants, and another for minority and economically disadvantaged students. The Supreme Court ruled that while race was a legitimate factor in .
school admissions, the use of such inflexible quotas as the medical school had set aside was not. 1.
On July 19, 1995 the White House created more definite guidelines on affirmative action. President Clinton called for the elimination of any program that (a) creates a quota; (b) creates preferences for unqualified individuals; (c) creates reverse discrimination; or (d) continues even after its equal opportunity purposes have been achieved.On November 3, 1997 Proposition 209 was enacted in California. Proposition 209 was a state ban on all forms of affirmative action: "The state shall not discriminate against, or grant preferential treatment to, any individual or group on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin in the operation of public employment, public education, or public contracting." .
On December 3, 1998 Washington State enacted Initiative 200. Washington becomes the second state to abolish state affirmative action measures when it passed "I 200," which is similar to California's Proposition 209. 1.
Affirmative Action has long been documented as a source of controversy. Political Culture is defined as a nation=s set of fundamental beliefs about how government and politics should be conducted.