The Court's Protection of Criminal Rights The basis of American society is rooted within the people's possession and the government's protection of civil rights and liberties. ... Among the most important rights to the United States" democratic society are the rights to a reasonable expectation of privacy, granted in the Fourth Amendment, and equal representation under the law, as seen in the Fifth Amendment. ... During the civil rights movement of the 1960s, the constitutional protection of criminal defendants was greatly augmented by the Supreme Court headed by Chief J...

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The initial intent of "Affirmative action" was intended to take positive steps toward increasing the representation of women and minorities in areas of employment, education, and culture from which they have been historically excluded. History indicated a tremendous amount of discrimination against women and minorities prior to the Affirmative Action initiative. The steps taken by the Affirmative Action plan aimed to eliminate previous prejudicial selections, as well as to serve as a sort of recompense for previous mistreatments. This seemed to be a positive step in the right dire...

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The FBI was able to know every single movement he said or made because they intercepted every type of communication he had. ... Upper Congressmen knowing the wiretapping happening four years ago, knowing it was unconstitutional, violating civil rights, but keeping in silence was more convenient for them, than 317 billion people's freedom. ... Even if he really does, the wiretapping is not the safest way for a country to investigate others, he is fighting civil rights. Civil Rights concerning citizen's privacy have reached its highest point. ... It is completely certain that all t...

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The Civil Rights Movement1 was initiated by Southern blacks in the 1950s and "60s to break the prevailing pattern of racial segregation2. ... In the late 1960's some progress was made after a series of civil rights protests and the passage of federal laws desegregating other public facilities. The Brown decision sparked a host of other actions in the Southern civil rights movement. ... The growing power of the civil rights movement was demonstrated on August 23, 1962 when more than 200,000 peaceful demonstrators marched on Washington, D.C. ... One of the most hopeful signs of racial p...

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Women and minorities were given constitutional rights that were refused to them for many years, but they continued to be discriminated against. ... The Civil Rights movement was making great strides when affirmative action was first introduced in the early 1960's. ... Shortly after becoming president, Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 which prohibited the discrimination of all kinds based on race, color, religion, or national origin. ... The following year Congress passed the Voting Rights Act of 1965, making it easier for southern blacks to register to vote. ... The acceptance...

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As a human being and especially as a citizen of the United States of America, I believe that civil rights are a very intricate part of our existence. ... In response to the civil rights movement, President John F. ... In 1964 after this term was coined, Title VI of the Civil Rights Act increased the authority of affirmative action agents to institute quotas and preferential hiring to increase representation of minorities and to ameliorate discrimination. ... Although affirmative action in the Civil Rights Act outlawed discrimination within minority groups involving employment, it did not cover...

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In 1981, he was appointed the Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights at the United States Department of Education majorly due to his past in the civil rights movement and to balance the composition of this important part of the US government. ... He however left the seminary and decided to fight for civil rights after he overheard a fellow student at the seminary make fun of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. ... Marshall who was almost similar with his views on civil rights at the Supreme Court. ... After a one year stint as Assistant Secretary of Education for the Office for Civil Ri...

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In attempt to calm part of the storm, President Lyndon Johnson requested and received the most comprehensive civil rights act in history. ... Thus began the next stage in the battle for civil rights. ... However, some civil rights groups had recovered from the famine they had been put through during the 80's. ... The new movement called for an improvement upon the 1964 Civil Rights Act. ... In reaction to several Supreme Court decisions, the Civil Rights Act of 1990 (although it was not passed until a year later) was written, "To amend the Civil Rights Act of 1964, to restore and strength...

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With an ever increasing need to legally protect immigrants and an new and powerful uprising of civil right concerns, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was established to outlaw discrimination of all ethnic, religious, and racial groups. ... Constitution, as well as the Civil Rights Act of 1964. ... Nichols The Supreme Court unanimously favored Lau and found that, rather than violating the Equal Rights Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, the actions by the San Francisco Unified School District had indeed violated Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Title VI regulates requirements and feder...

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It is backed by the nation's most prestigious civil groups, from the League of Woman Voters to the American Civil Liberty Union. ... The court ruled that the fetus was not a person with constitutional rights and that a right to privacy inherited in the 14 amendment due process guaranteed of personal liberty protected a woman's decision to have an abortion. ... The members of the "right to life" movement have lobbied for a constitutional amendment on the rights of the unborn since the legalization of abortion. Even supporters of woman rights rally against abortion including Elizabet...

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The courts rested their decisions on the circular argument that the couples equal protection rights were not violated because they were excluded by the traditional definition of marriage, which in turn denied them any rights under that definition. ... The clear and central purpose of the Fourteenth Amendment was to eliminate all official state resources of invidious racial discrimination in the States. " The court did finally state that the freedom to marry has been recognized as one of the vital personal rights that is essential to the orderly pursuit of happiness by free men. ... The instant...

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It became most noticeable in the 1960's civil rights movement that was designed to break down the barriers of segregation and exclusion against people of minority status. ... Those policies worked to desegregate and include minorities at a level that was inconceivable before the civil rights movement. ...

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Ten years later Congress stepped in and passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964. ... The civil rights movement lose speed and following the Bakke case in 1978, less attention was given to the affirmative action debate. ... Here the court was asked whether "the University of Michigan's use racial preferences in undergraduate admissions violates the Equal Protection Rights Act of 1964. ... The brief submitted by the administration confronted the issue by emphasizing state rights and their role in education and diversity. ...

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