The federal government attempted to use many laws to protect the rights of the newly freed slaves, such as the Civil rights Act of 1866, which gave African Americans the right of citizenship and forbade other states from passing their own discriminatory laws. ... In the end, although the laws may have seemed like they failed or brought grief to the newly freed slaves, I feel the laws saved lives, and yet gave the African Americans a new feeling that they were a part of their country and mattered because they able to vote. I happen to think the laws passed to protect the rights of freed s...

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Reforming America's criminal justice system is a top priority, in order to end racism, and to clear up the population's tarnished image of law enforcement. Although the media, has its right to portray things the way they desire, we still have to fix what they depict, as it is our government/country that we live in and we are supposed to take pride in it. ... Racism in law enforcement has become such a common deed, as we date it back to 1991 with the Rodney King beating in Los Angeles, California. We won't go into detail about it, as it is just an example, for how long law enforc...

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Through amendments and acts, the American government has worked towards reducing racism towards African-Americas. ... The American government began taking actions against racism during the times of the Civil War, when a war was waged between the North and the South over whether or not the South could secede from the Union and permit slavery. ... The fifteenth Amendment gave African-Americans the right to vote, therefore under the eyes of the law, proclaiming blacks as equals to whites. Unfortunately, in the South, Jim Crow laws were enacted, severely restricting blacks" new found freedoms. Jim...

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These amendments were not helpful because the government and the white people did not follow these laws until the mid-1900's. During and after Reconstruction, there were laws made that limited the civil liberties of African Americans. ... The Jim Crow Laws forbade African Americans from sharing facilities with the whites and they also limited other rights of freedmen. ... In conclusion, Africans Americans were given many civil liberties but the government and the white people did not follow the rules and did not give African Americans what they deserved. Many laws limited the rights of Af...

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The Republicans believe in a small government that should only interfere when necessary. ... Both Democrats and Republicans have played major roles in our government. Democrats have helped pass important bills ranging from student loan acts to gun safety laws. ... Interest groups also play a role in our government. ... Every American over 18 has the right to choose and influence his government. ...

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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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The war put constitutional government to its severest test as a long festering debate over the power of the federal government versus state rights. ... The government was saying in effect, that ignorant, loyal men who are black are not fit to vote, but ignorant" loyal men who are white are. ... A child apprenticeship law provided that parents could indenture their offspring to employers until age 21. Black Codes, because of their deceptive nature, eventually became known as the laws of Jim Crow. ... On one hand, the Federal Government would make laws to protect the rights of African-Americans,...

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Most white southerners claimed that the blacks that won office during Reconstruction were incapable of running the government. ... Southerners simply were unwilling to accept any form of government in which blacks and northerners played a significant role. ... During the reconstruction, President Gran's efforts opposed the KKK, enforced voting laws, and civil rights, but his reputation suffered due to a number of scandals or instances of federal corruption for his administration from 1869 to 1877, such as the Black Friday and the Whiskey Ring. All this proves that the federal government h...

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The radical republicans felt the emancipation would not work unless the government could guarantee equality of all citizens including black men. ... Southern whites turned to the traditional political leaders of their section for guidance in reorganizing their governments. ... The South ignored the law. ... "Jim Crow" laws mandated racial segregation in public facilities of all kinds (Murrin 647). ... Congress tries time and time again to pass laws to help blacks became equal to whites by passing the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments, but the South ignores the laws and make new ones lik...

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African-Americans pleaded with the government to do something to stop the lynching. "The government which had made the Negro a citizen found itself unable to protect him. ... The introduction of the Jim Crow laws did not help the lynching any. ... The Jim Crow laws made it even harder to suppress the lynching and hate of the white man towards the African-Americans. ... Between 1890 and 1940 some states passed Anti-Lynching laws. ...

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The demonstration was the pressure that forced the government and the people to confront segregation and rethink if the segregation law was right or wrong. However, he believed the pressure to exceed the limits of the law was undesirable. ... According to him, Black American must take nonviolent actions to break Segregation laws. ... For example, Rosa Parks was arrested for disobeying a segregation law in Montgomery, Alabama in 1955. ... Martin Luther King, Jr. organized a boycott of the bus system to repeal the discriminatory law. ...

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"An unjust law is a code that a numerical or power majority group compels a minority group to obey but does not make binding on itself a law is unjust if it is inflicted on a minority that, as a result of being denied the right to vote, had no part in enacting or devising the law," (King, p 1307). A law becomes injustice when a specific group of people were denied voting rights. ... The 15th Amendment prohibits the government from rejecting any American citizen from participation in government activities regardless of his or her race. ... King used logo, a logical appeal, to clarify ...

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A just law is a man made code that squares with moral law, or the law of god. An unjust law is a code that is out of harmony with the moral law. ... Thomas Aquinas, an unjust law is a human law that is not rooted in eternal and natural law.... But a government in which the majority rules in all cases cannot be based on justice, even as far as men understand it.... Unjust laws are "out of harmony with the moral law. ...

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The constitution and government and state regulations prohibit any open attack or assault on blacks. ... There are a lot of black people working for the government in the USA. This means that the federal states and the government believes in the black people and trusts them with high importance jobs. ... The solution could be for the government to make better laws for black people. These laws should cover every area of daily and general life. ...

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The government became more aware, and powerful due to the Progressive Era. ... The government was unresponsive to the impact of industrialization and urbanization, and was involved in a few court cases. ... African Americans were trying to fight against Jim Crow laws and the idea of, "separate but equal.... The government started to expand on democratic values. ... The government was able to gain a lot of power because of money and the idea of natural selection. ...

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The government became more aware, and powerful due to the Progressive Era. ... The government was unresponsive to the impact of industrialization and urbanization, and was involved in a few court cases. ... African Americans were trying to fight against Jim Crow laws and the idea of, "separate but equal.... The government started to expand on democratic values. ... The government was able to gain a lot of power because of money and the idea of natural selection. ...

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George Washington once said "The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitution of government.... Great Britain was making the laws and making decisions about what the people of the thirteen colonies could or couldn't do. ... Another example would be the Lebanese Civil war, in which both the Sunnis and the Shiites, two religious communities fought for government control. ... I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individu...

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On the other hand, other presidents wrote these words: "When the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe", and "No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free none ever will", "The press is the best instrument for enlightening the mind of man, and improving him as a rational, moral, and social being". I don't believe that the government should regulate this medium/industry in order to preserve the rights of our society and its members. ... He said that the First Amendment reads more like a dream than a law, and no other country, as far as he knows,...

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Another problem which was a significant disadvantage was the Jim Crow laws, named after a black character in a programme in that year. ... The other major problem was the schooling under the Jim Crow laws. ... The segregation in the army, however was ended on July 30th,1948.Another disadvantage was the Jim Crow laws (mentioned before).Although the Northern states weren't as bad in the racism department as the Southern states there was still the odd racist attack/remark in the Northern states. There were a lot of economical, political and social disadvantages made out by Jim Crow laws. ......

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However, in the article "The Civil Rights Cases" the law state section 1. ... This law was giving all people the right to enjoy the public places together. ... For example, "Ryan and Singleton an indictment for denying two individuals the privileges and accommodations of a theater, the information against Ryan being for refusing a colored person a seat in a dress circle of Maguire's theater in San Francisco"(para.3) These court cases enforced what the government said was right. All Americans were to be considered equal and able to enjoy time in public places without f...

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A white male got on the bus and saw there were no more seats in the white section so her decided to take Rosa's seat she refused and the driver called the police and Rosa was arrested and found guilty of violating segregation laws and fined $14.The segregation laws were complex black were had to pay their fare to the driver, then get off the bus and then reboard through the back end of the bus. ... These laws were ridiculous and outrageous to the black so this started the Montgomery bus boycott on December 5 1955 headed by Martin Luther King Jr. lasted December 5,1955 through December 20,...

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The law has been so successful at depriving blacks of their humanity and hope that some blacks too has come to believe in the malicious values that the law has perceived them out to be. ... I believe the skepticism about the law system should be taken into a reality. ... Since the 60's blacks has been in unity to establish a place or power government in order to lead their own. ...

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Conceivably, it was this beneficial rearing that impelled Marian into an accomplished career in law, but definitely helped her become of the nation's top activists for children. Studying at Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia, Edelman became concerned with the civil rights movement, which motivated her to discontinue her plans of foreign service and study law instead. She went on to study law at Yale and work on a development to register African Americans voters in Mississippi. When she graduated from Yale Law School in 1963, she began working for the National Association fo...

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After a while however slavery laws were passed and that enabled the white masters to turn the blacks into slaves . ... With the white people in control over society they were able to pass various laws that enabled them to control the black population. ... This allowed the government and farmers to use the black people as a cheap source of labour. ... Also in the United States various segregation laws were passed to keep the blacks and whites separate. ... They used racial knowledge through laws and media structures to enable them to do this. ...

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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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