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| Treatment or consideration of, or making a distinction in favor of or against, a person or thing based on the group, class, or category to which that person or thing is perceived to belong to rather than on individual merit. |
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| To discriminate a policy must do what? |
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| Target a specific group or individual |
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| What is the biggest problem about discrimination? |
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| Unequal access to individuals |
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| What is the thirteenth amendment's main idea? |
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| Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction." |
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| What is the main idea of the fourteenth amendment? |
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| If you are born in the United States, you are an American citizen. It provides equal protection under the law to each citizen. |
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| What almost immediately followed the thirteenth and fourteenth amendments in the south? |
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| How did Jim Crow Laws stop colored people from voting? |
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| Fees on voting and a voting test. |
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| The Emancipation Proclamation freed slaves in the North, but not the South until after what? |
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| What are the two ways to challenge a law based on its effect? |
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1.)State it is unconstitutional through equal protection.
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2.)It is unconstitutional through due process.
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| What are the two parts of Due Process? |
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1.)Procedural Courts: All courts follow procedure, how its done.
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2.)Substantive is what is done in court when examining an implied right.
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| Rights that are implied but not specifically stated in the constitution. |
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| What is an example of an implied right? |
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| What is a right that implies privacy? |
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| The right to own land, the right to not have militias quartered in your home, right to avoid unwarranted search and seizure. |
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| The Supreme Court is terrified of what? |
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| Creating precedence by giving new rights. |
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| Condition of being considered more important than someone or something else; priority in importance, order, or rank. |
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| We don't have free speech we have what? |
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| What did the fifteenth amendment do? |
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| Allow all men to vote regardless of race. |
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| What did the voting rights act do? |
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| Set up a system, where every state has to send to the federal government any changes they make to voting. |
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| The Supreme Court recently did away with what? |
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| The Voting Rights Act, it was gutted. |
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| What does Equal Protection mean? |
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| All citizens in the same or similar circumstances are equal under the law. |
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| Fact assumed or created by courts which is then used in order to apply a legal rule. |
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| Why are corporations considered to be people? |
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| So that they can be sent into court, taxed |
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| Who cannot donate money to a campaign? |
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| There are limitations on what a corporation can give to a what? |
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| Carry out the day to day operation of a corporation |
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| Using money as speech allows one to use their capital to represent their what? |
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| What is democratic socialism? |
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| Political ideology advocating a democratic political system alongside a socialist economic system, involving a combination of political democracy with social ownership of the means of production. |
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