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| Education vouchers and tax credits |
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| Provides money for parents to send their students to private schools by paying taxes for public schools and receiving a voucher to cover the tuition fees. |
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| No Child Left Behind Act (2002) |
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| Established standards that schools needed to meet, if they did not, students would have the option to transfer to schools in the area that were |
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| Epperson v. Arkansas (1968) |
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(___________ vs. ___________)
state cannot ban the teaching of evolution due to a conflict with religious beliefs |
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| Edwards v. Aguillard (1987) |
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(___________ vs. ___________)
states can not mandate that teachers include a discussion of creation science when discussion evolution |
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(___________ vs. ___________)
Separate but equal doctrine. Held that the equal protection clause of the amendment did not forbid laws requiring separation of the races |
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| Brown v Board of Education (1954) |
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(___________ vs. ___________)
Court ruled that even if the facilities were the same, separating race has a psychological impact on society, banned segregation in school, under no timeline however |
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| Regents of the University of California v Bakke (1978) |
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(___________ vs. ___________)
Quota system, a certain number of spots were put aside for minority candidates. White male was denied admission, and believed he was denied because of the quotas, rules that quotas are unconstitutional, they could take race into account but it could not be a deciding factor. |
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(___________ vs. ___________)
ruled that illegal immigrants could not be denied public education |
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(___________ vs. ___________)
Abortions are legal and states cannot ban them in the first trimester, can ban them in the third trimester, and the second trimester is by doctors choice and only in relation to mothers health |
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| National Socialist Party of America v. Village of Skokie (1977) |
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(___________ vs. ___________)
racial slurs are a protected form of speech |
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| Stanley v. Georgia (1969) |
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(___________ vs. ___________)
“if the first Amendment means anything, it means that state has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his home, what books he may read or what films he may see” |
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| the rights of all individuals to realize their human potential to become whatever their personal abilities allow, free from barriers imposed by society and institutions |
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| Particular ethnic group represented in the population is the same percentage that there are of that ethnic group working in the society |
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| University of Michigan cases (2003) |
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| Point system, 20 points were awarded for being a part of a minority, which was the most amount of points possible, the point system was struck down |
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| The Equal Rights Amendment (1982) |
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(_________ _________ Amendment)
Wanted distinctions between advantages for different sexes, women have been and remain under-represented in higher-status positions and over-represented in lower-status positions |
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a quota, limiting immigrants of any nationality to 3 percent of those of the same nationality living in the country
Keeps the racial and ethical diversity relatively stable |
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| The Immigration and Nationality Act (1965): family reunification |
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| If you had family in the United States then you would be given preference when trying to immigrate |
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| The Immigration Act (1900): new category of diversity immigrants |
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| Lottery type process that lets individuals who are not well represented by population in America to immigrate |
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| The illegal immigration Reform and immigration Responsibility act (1996) |
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Addresses issues concerning illegal immigrants (Border Patrol, eligibility for benefits, etc.)
Brought about the denial of benefits to Illegal immigrants, i.e. they cannot gain access to aid programs that are available to citizens |
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| The USA PATRIOT ACT (2001) |
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| Trying to more secure our border to prevent further terrorist attacks from happening on our own soil |
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| words that by their very utterance inflict injury or tend to incite a breach of peace |
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| Judged matter to be obscene if any isolated passage has a “tendency to corrupt and deprave those who are open to such immoral influence” |
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| No longer a focus on any isolated passage whether the material offends the “average” person, censorship only for material “utterly without redeeming social importance” |
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1) Establishment Clause
2)Free Exercise Clause |
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| (1) Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, (2) or the free exercise thereof. |
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| Carrying out policy successfully can at times be frustrated by ____________ ___________ |
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| negative relationship between high troops casualties and public support for war |
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