The government reacted to internal resistance by passing further repressive laws which caused even more resistance to the apartheid system. While the white minority National Party government passed and implemented oppressive apartheid laws, black South Africans responded by intensifying their political opposition in the form of protests, marches, strikes and boycotts. The repressive laws of the apartheid system introduced and practiced by the white minority National Party government after 1948, certainly made black resistance difficult but not impossible. ... As black resistance grew, the Nati...

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Kennedy signed a bill forcing government contractors to extinguish discrimination due to race, religion or national origin. Since that law came into existence, many changes have taken place to provide a broader scope of protection for what the government calls protected class members. ... Since that law came into existence, many changes have taken place to provide a broader scope of protection to what the government calls the "protected class." ... Government was unable to ignore the issues any longer without a great penalty. Compassion to help the underprivileged also attributed to governm...

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Setting a fixed standard and guideline of punishment aims to convince potential criminals that the crime is not worth the time (general deterrence), to equally and fairly distribute punishment among similar illegal acts (retribution), to help and not just punish the criminals in order to remove further threat to society (rehabilitation), and to detain criminals to eliminate risk of a repeated offence (incapacitation).2 According to UN declaration article 7, the United Nations, all are equal before the law and are entitled without any discrimination to equal protection of the law. ... Ever sin...

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It is meant to provide equal protection to all persons under the law and to fairly administer the law. ... The government has capriciously changed which laws they would make more arrests for in order to be sure to arrest Blacks. ... The government equivocates the law to favor White Americans. ... The myopic view taken by the government has caused pain for many people. ... The dilatory actions of those in the legal profession are causing minority groups to lose faith in government as a whole. ...

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Apartheid was a government policy of complete racial separation that gave power mainly to the whites. ... In the United States, Jim Crow laws banned black citizens from obtaining jobs and access to public places such as restaurants and hotels. ... He eventually obtained a law degree from the University of South Africa. ... Black citizens did not have the right to vote in either country due to laws passed by the government. ... These ten million citizens had no representation in the government, and their voices for governmental changes weren't being heard by not permitting them to vote. ...

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It was then a new educational system was presented by the government to the black Africans, the Bantu educational act. ... But in the 1953, the government brought apartheid to educational system as well, thus segregated laws in educational system became legally right. ... In addition to Bantu act, an another brutal law was formed in 1974; Afrikaans Medium Decree. This law made all black schools forced to utilize Afrikaans and English in a fifty-fifty blend as language of order. ... Anyway, as the protests carried on it made the government use more violence to the protesters. ...

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Later he finds out that even such a simple wish like this is extremely hard to realise under the Apartheid laws – black people are defined as an inferior level and they have only little right in life. ... His perseverance redeems rewards as he successfully units his race, overthrow the government and thus abolish apartheid and any other laws against black race at the final stage of his life. ... Last month, the government of United States of America has just legalised same-sex marriage throughout the country. ... Finally after several generation's hard effort homosexual people manag...

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Our most powerful and sacred document that holds all the power in the government is colorblind. ... Constitution states "No state shall deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of laws." ... The US government has " more than ninety thousand organizations with contracts valued at $50,000 or more." ... They feel that this law is unfair, taking away more gifts that I can give to myself or my family. ... Herzberger, the debate is whether the government truly believes in their laws or if they are simply using it as campaign fuel. ...

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Key to the understanding of racial separation, as exemplified by segregation and Jim Crow laws in America and the system of apartheid in South Africa, is the understanding of race itself and the effects of categorizing people by skin color as to provide a benefit to one of the parties involved, usually the minority party. ... This unification was evident in the creation of Jim Crow laws that allowed all white superior lining conditions despite their northern or southern affiliations. ... To give a cliche analogy, the apartheid government was continually trying to put a band aid on a third degr...

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The court had to make its decision based on whether or not the authors of the Fourteenth Amendment had desegregated schools in mind when the amendment was written in 1868, but based on whether or not desegregated schools deprived black children of equal protection of the law when the case was decided in 1954, On May 17, 1954 Chief Justice Earl Warren read the decision of the unanimous court: In the field of public education the doctrine of separate but equal has no place. ... The kinds of change brought about by the ACLW and NAACP litigation here possible because of fundamental changes in Ame...

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Although numerous articles and books have been published devising means by which to reduce variance within the system, the most recent, and probably most contentious, is that of Paul Butler, Associate Professor of Law, George Washington University Law School, and former Special Assistant United States Attorney in the District of Columbia. Butler's thesis, published in an article in the Yale Law Journal, is that "for pragmatic and political reasons, the black community is better off when some nonviolent lawbreakers remain in the community rather than go to prison. ...

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One example of oppression comes in the form of deprivation of rights and materials, which basically means that someone is not allowed the same rights to the constitutional law, rules, and anything of equal status when it comes to legality. ... Colored people in courts were not given the rights they deserved, even when the law said they should be given those rights. ... This oppressive category is aimed to force the people it's discriminating against to stay in a certain status level; usually created to keep someone at a poverty ranking, their education low or refusing the correct law and ...

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The movement was initially advanced through the amendment process, an essential method of change in our government. ... It became evident that history would really have to wait before out reactive society and government ever become proactive. ... In one of such attempts, "Governor Collins accepted segregation as a part of Florida custom and law and promised to use the lawful processes of his office to maintain it." ... However, Governor Collins, in response to this decision, passed "the 1955 legislature into law to authorize the assignment of pupils to schools on the basis of health, safety...

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Apartheid, literally meaning separateness or setting apart , was the ideology of the South African National Party that made the segregation of and discrimination against non-whites government policy. ... The National Party convinced the white population that unless the government could exercise firm control over non-whites in South Africa, black Africans would soon dominate both urban centers and the industrial economy. ... However, Scott makes reference to the use of High Modernism by repressive right wing governments. ... This act tightened the segregation of the school system and reorgan...

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Since the onset of the "war on drugs" in the mid-1980s, Black Americans have been arrested, prosecuted, convicted and imprisoned for drug law offences at rates grossly out of proportion to their numbers among drug offenders. Although drug use and selling cut across all racial, socioeconomic and geographic lines, law enforcement strategies have targeted street-level drug dealers and users from low-income, predominantly minority urban areas. ...

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Many minorities face being pulled over by policemen just because of the color of their skin, not because of violating the law. ... (Schencker, Brenner, The Daily Illini) Taylor states, "in constitutional-law parlance, while racial profiling may be presumptively unconstitutional, that presumption is overcome in the case of airline passengers, because the government has a compelling interest in preventing mass-murder-suicide hijackings, and because close scrutiny of Arab-looking people is narrowly tailored to protect that interest. ...

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She is motivated both by her guilt for failing to prevent Pieter's tragedy and by the wish to show mercy, in contrast to the racially divisive laws that separate Pieter and the country The novel is set in the time following World War II, and Pieter and the other South African soldiers who volunteered to go abroad and fight with the British have returned home and resumed their lives. ... The strike and procession are an indication of organized black opposition to government policy, and, although Sophie treats them as insignificant, it is clear that they have a larger historical significan...

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Even though the federal government has passed civil rights law in an attempt to equalize education, these laws having been "designed to end segregated education [, they like a lot of other laws and policies,] have been consistently undermined and defeated by white resistance and refusal (Lipsitz 34). " Lipsitz not only discusses the implications of the possessive investment in whiteness on blacks but because is America a nation full of different ethnic backgrounds, Lipsitz also includes the implications for Latino and Asian communities. ...

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Thus, the greatest threat to democracy was seen as coming from class warfare that destabilized a nation's economy, society and government, and threatened the peaceful and harmonious implementation of laws.... This led to many racist laws and horrible acts in the name of "white power". Today's leaders agree that these laws and acts are racist and offensive, however, many southerners still feel that segregation and even slavery should still exist. ...

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Millions of African Americans fought for achieving racial equality before the law. ... During debate over the law, women took advantage of a segregationist Congressman's likely hostile amendment to include "sex" in Title VII, which would ban employment discrimination. ... The civil rights movement pushed the private sphere into the public sphere – it made discrimination that wouldn't previously fall under the government's sphere of influence a legislative issue. ...

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Due to his work as a lawyer, John Grisham also presents a supposedly accurate image of the proceedings of the law, including the indictment, the selection of the trial jury and the preparations of both the DA and the defendant's lawyer. ... All the '58 stereotypes are in abundant supply: mellifluous judge, evil, smirky prosecutor, drunken law professor, cynical divorce lawyer pal, good ol' dog, morally pure African-American, Cro-Magnon white racists.... DE-FACTO SEGREGATION Even though in the United States, the "Separate but Equal" doctrine of the Jim Crow laws was ef...

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As women, they realized that they could not presume that the law would provide sufficient protection for them. ... They have risen above centuries of oppression so that, today, after years of dealing with society's racist and sexist misconceptions, with its brutal hostilities and unthinkable mistreatment, not only are they supporting families, they"re leading corporations, major media organizations, the military, our state and federal governments. ...

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Bakke held that the Constitution forbids public universities and other government agencies to use rigid racial quotas but does not forbid the use of race as a "factor- among others. ... In the Voting Rights Act, and in federal legislation and regulations giving benefits to minority contractors, a form of affirmative action is already enshrined in law. ...

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During the Reconstruction period, the U.S government passed the 14th, 15th, and 16th amendments in order to ensure rights for African Americans. ... He believes that democracy requires citizens that can criticize their leaders and their governments. ...

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Artists were out to share these experiences, while also serving as messengers of the public who kept the government in check. [8][9] This lack of representation was due to the fact that topics of gangsters, ghettos, violence, drug dealers, and misogyny were thought by owners of major record labels to attract a wealthy, suburban, white, teenage audience. ...

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