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| the rights of all people to be free from irrational discrimination such as that based on race, religion, gender or ethnic origin? |
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| the rights of all people to dignity and worth also called human rights? |
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| remdial action deigned to overcome the effects of discrimination against minorities and women? |
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| a legal action conferring citzenship on an alien? |
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| citzenship in more than one nation? |
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| the right to renounce one' citzenship? |
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| the right of women to vote? |
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| a clause in the 14th amendment that forbids any state to deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. by interpretation the 5th amendment imposes the same limitation on the national government. this clause is the major constitutional restraint on the power of governments to discriminate against persons because of race, national origin or sex? |
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| a clause in the 5th amendment limiting the power of the national government; a similar cluase in the 14th amendment prohibits state governments from depriving any person of life, liberty, or property without due process of law? |
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| a standard developed by the courts to test the contitutionality of a law; when applied a law is constitutional as long a it meets a resonable government interest. |
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| a test applied by the court when a classification is based on race the government must show that there is compelling reason for the law and no other less restrictive way to meet the interest? |
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| this test has been applied when a law classifies based on sex; to be upheld the law must meet an important government interest? |
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| a literacy requirement some states imposed as a condition of voting generally used to disqualify black voters in the south; now illegal |
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| a democratic party primary in the old one party south that was limited to white people and essiantially constituted an election; ruled unconstitutional in Smith v. Allwright |
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| the drawing of election districts so as to ensure that members of a certain race are in a minority in the district; ruled unconstitutional in Gomillion v. Lightfoot? |
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| tax required to vote; prohibited for national elections by the 24th amendment and ruled unconstitutional for all elections in Harper v. Board of Election |
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| a congressional ditrict created to include a majority of minority voters; ruled unconitutional so long as race is not the main facotr in redistricting |
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| majority-minority district |
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| state laws formely pervasive throughout the south requiring public facilities and accomadations to be segregated by race; ruled unconstitutional |
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| the claue of the constitution(article 1, section 8, clause 3) that gives congress the power to regualte all business activities that cross state lines or affect more than one state or other nations |
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| a lawsuit brought by an individual or a group of people on behalf of all those simiarily situated |
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| a provision in a deed to real property prohibiting its sale to a person of a particular race or religion. judicial enforcement of such deeds is unconstitutional |
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| segregation imposed by law |
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| segregation resulting from economic or social condidtions or personal choice |
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