This was believed to help end employment discrimination in our United States government. The order stated that our government would not discriminate against any employee due to race, creed, color, or national origin. ... Take for example Cheryl Hopwood, a woman who applied for admission to the University of Texas Law School in 1992. ... She boasted a 3.8 grade point average and a high Law School Aptitude Test score. ... The University of California Berkley School of Law admitted every black with a grade point average of 3.5 and Law School Admission Test of ninety or above, but only 42%...

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Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream"" speech in comparison with George Wallace's inaugural address highlights the issue of segregation and seems to imply the philosophical views of the two men with regard to positive verses natural law, a subject's duty to obey the law, how law should or should not be used to promote the common good, the harm to others principle, and the roles paternalism, autonomy, and morality should play in determining the aims of law. ... King implies that until the morally unjust laws cease to be thrust upon generations of Negros they cannot be satisfied...

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Another example given is that of a male teacher who did not receive his promotions due to the same law. ... They feel that this law is unfair, taking away more gifts that I can give to myself or my family. ... The government indeed did make the law of affirmative action for the people; but do the high office holders truly believe in what they promote? ... Herzberger, the debate is whether the government truly believes in their laws or if they are simply using it as campaign fuel. ... This law sets quotas that puts a race above the other. ...

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The old Jim Crow laws governed all aspects of their existence, from the schoolroom to the rest room. ... The civil rights movement during the late 1800's and early 1900's provided the foundations for the current civil rights laws achieved throughout the 1960's. ... In the South, the Jim Crow laws emerged, segregating blacks in public places, including hotels and restaurants. ... Ferguson (1896), Jim Crow Laws, and the ignorance of black voting rights. ... Government jobs an...

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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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Most liberals believe that the government is detrimental to liberalism's beliefs because it does not allow everyone to be an individual since laws are in place to limit freedom. John Locke advocated this when he attacked the government saying no government allows absolute liberty-. ... This was because, since women did not have the right to vote they had no influence on common law, work related laws and contract laws to name but a few. ... The marital and property laws supported the idea that women were the inferior sex. ... Even the common and contract law was the same. ...

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So, with the enactment of apartheid laws in 1948, racial discrimination was institutionalized in the South African government. Racially-biased laws touched every aspect of social life, including a prohibition of marriage between non-whites and whites, and the sanctioning of ``white-only'' jobs. ... And, rebellion against the race laws was dealt with severely. ... In 1953, the Public Safety Act and the Criminal Law Amendment Act was passed, which gave the government the right to declare strict states of emergency and increased penalties for protesting against or supporting the revocat...

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Once people of color could claim equal protection under the law, they would predictably use their civil rights victory to help undermine the institution of slavery" (Jones, p. 25) Howard's prediction is correct. ... Black males are pulled over often, along with Mexicans and minorities alike, by law enforcement for simply being a person of color. ... Some law officials tend to fear the African American race because they are ignorant when it comes to the logistics of crimes. ... Reading the government's apology in class to the Native Americans still shocks me because it seems as i...

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This issue screams to be addressed by the government and abolished in American society if we truly desire our country to be "The Land of the Free," that we all know and love. ... It would seem that skin color alone may very well make you a suspect in America, and more likely to be stopped by our law enforcement personnel. ... According to our own governmental reports 80 percent of the country's cocaine users are white, and the "typical" cocaine user is a white middle class suburbanite. But law enforcement tactics remain concentrated ...

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All this works, which used to be the primary province of government, is now also performed by private corporations, whose link to government in the field of what is euphemistically called "corrections" resonate dangerously with the military-industrial complex. ...

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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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Southern governors and law enforcement officials argued that these tactics were criminal and that the Civil Rights movement was a breakdown of law and order. ... Conservatives could now hide behind these activists and say that race had nothing to do with their "law and order" agenda. ... " These highly racialized appeals targeted poor and working-class whites and were usually accompanied with promises to be tougher on crime and to enhance the government's role in combating it. ... Initially, there was much controversy regarding whether the federal government should play a ...

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Twenty-seven percent of Louisiana residents believe that AIDS is a form of genocide, while 70 percent believed that the government was not telling that complete truth about AIDS. ... In addition, conspiracy theory is an umbrella term encompassing myths, urban legends, and rumors and does not limit itself to government. ... Moreover, they are present in every aspect of life from sports to government and seem to have a never-ending life. ... According to the freedom domain website, in the 18th century, Masons, who later converted to Illuminati, sole purpose was to secretly create ...

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The government gave them no work and many Black refugees got rocky and barren land to farm. ... Blacks mostly settled together because it was a form of support because the government did not help them out much. ... On August 28th 1833 Britain passed a law freeing and ending slavery in all of its thirteen colonies freeing over 300 slaves. This law came into effect August 1st 1834. ... In 1911, the government and Blacks were having problems in the prairies and this eventually led to ending Black immigration to the prairies. ...

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During the last half of the nineteenth-century the government formed strict laws to thwart the strong beliefs of polygamy until church leaders denounced the practice. ... Government officials, mainly the Republican Party, began to pass strict laws concerning anyone practicing plural marriage. ... Leaders often referred to passages Smith had written about a close descendant of Ham that established the first government of Egypt; He became a very wise and righteous ruler but because he was an ancestor of Cain he was "cursed pertaining to the Priesthood"10. Republican Government officials conti...

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The thought that a nation, through its parliament, could legislate laws which relegated one race of the community to an inferior position seemed inconceivable and obscene to Attenborough. ... In 1948, the Afrikaner Nationalist Party, in its first year of government, drew up apartheid laws to cover every aspect of peoples' lives with the particular purpose of isolating different racial groups (black, Asian, mixed blood, and white). ... Over three hundred specific racial laws have been legislated in South Africa. ... There are Indians, Asians and people of mixed colour, numbering about fo...

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The southern slave owning states made it clear that they did not want the federal government to interfere with their ability to own slaves. Therefore the Constitution was structured to allow the caste system of slavery to not only continue, but also gave the stamp of approval of slavery from the newly formed government (Alexander, 25). ... Vagrancy laws made it illegal to not have a job. These laws were mainly directed toward blacks (Alexander, 28). ... However, these Amendments turned out to be false promises when the government stopped protecting these rights of southern black Americans. ...

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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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Many Southerners favored secession as part of the idea that the states have rights and powers which the federal government cannot legally deny. ... g our hearts and increasing the burdens of the American slave, and strengthening the arm of his guilty master, till now, in the pride of his giant power, that master is emboldened to lift rebellious arms against the very majesty of the law, and defy the power of the Government itself. ... We have hated and persecuted the Negro we have scourged him out of the temple of justice by the Dred Scott decision we have shot and hanged his friends at Harper&...

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There are many different cultures throughout the world we live in. There's no one to say who's culture is better than another, but I will say that I love everything about my culture and how we live. In this paper you"ll get an understanding of how I was raised as a black man in America. You"ll also ...

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Especially in the South of the U.S. the law did very little to protect blacks. In fact, some laws, called segregation laws, often limited their freedom and discriminated against them. ... These laws grew out of a racist attitude toward blacks. ... Seldom did a court of law convict a white person for harming a black. ... Eisenhower forced the state to obey the law by sending in army paratroopers and the Arkansas National Guard to protect the students. ...

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Since the government came up with the "brilliant" idea of exclusionary zoning, blacks and other minorities have suffered the most. ... Upon entering a unit provided by the government, one may find holes in the floors, neglected utility pipes and fixtures, and infestations. ... Because the government nearly refuses to build housing in nice middle or upper class neighborhoods that is priced for the lower class, minorities are essentially stuck in the inner-cities and high-crime areas. ... They built their own schools and churches, formed their own police and fire departments, and even made up...

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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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As a result of the racial segregation laws black Americans were permanently abased in busses. ... As a consequence she was arrested for violating the city's segregation law. ... The marchers demanded equal justice for all citizens under the law. ...

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