CHAPTER 5 - PSC
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- Created on: 17-02-19 22:12
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- Civil Rights
- All men created equally under the Dec, equal protections clause of the 14th amendment.
- Discrimination: often happens, RATIONAL BASIS TEST decides whether there is a valid reason. INTERMEDIATE SCRUTINY requires gov to demonstrate treating men and women differently is important. STRICT SCRUTINY, members of racial groups has compelling gov interest.
- Affirmative Action: benefits marginalised groups
- AFRICAN AMERICANS
- Issues with 15th amendment, jim crow laws, white primary, literacy tests, poll tax, grandfather clause.
- SC in 60s ban poll tax, end white-dominated political power, voting rights act bans jim crow laws.
- Issues with 15th amendment, jim crow laws, white primary, literacy tests, poll tax, grandfather clause.
- WOMEN'S RIGHTS
- Married women did not have separate identities. Temperance and abolition movement, sufferage, national womens party, equal rights.
- ISSUES, glass ceiling, harassment, abortion, comparable worth.
- INDIGENOUS GROUPS
- Abused since colonisation, denied citizenship, TRAIL OF TEARS, CURTIS ACT abolished tribal govs, INDIAN SELF-DETERMINATION AND EDUCATION ASSISTANCE ACT OF 1975.
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