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| equal rights/ civil rights |
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| the right of every person to equal protection under the laws and equal access to society's opportunities and public facilities |
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| a clause of the 14th amendment that forbids any state to deny equal protection of the laws to any individual within its jurisdiction |
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| a test applied by courts of laws that treat individuals unequally. such a law may be deemed constiutitional if its purpose is held to be reasonably related to a legitimate government interest |
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| a test applied by courts to laws that attempt a racial or an ethnic classification. in effect that eliminates race or ethnicity as legal classification when it places minority group members at a disadvantage |
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| classifications such as race and national origin that have invidious discrimination as their purpose and therefore are unconstititional |
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| refers to programs designed to ensure that women, minorities, and other traditionally disadvantage groups have full and equal opportunities in employment, education, and other areas of life |
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| discrimination on the basis of race, sex, religion. ethnicity, and the like that results from a law |
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| discrimination on the basis of race, sex, religon, ethnicity and the like that results from social, economic, and cultural biases and conditions |
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