He defines a just law as " a manmade code that squares with the moral law or the law of God" (Jacobus 187). A law that is mandated on the minority, but the majority is not required to follow, is considered unjust (Jacobus 187). The unjust laws, such as the segregation statutes, infringed on humans rights, and therefore slows the progress of society and African Americans. ... King saw the discriminatory and unjust treatment of African Americans. ... These unjust laws further enhance the malicious treatment of African Americans. ...

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The idea of special treatment for any group of people is unjust. ... Hwang argues in his article "the dismantlement of affirmative action does not in any way compromise the efficacy of anti-discrimination laws. The objective of having these anti- discrimination laws is to provide an equal opportunity for all, not preferential treatment for some. ... I am still convinced that Affirmative Action is unjust. Why should any laws give an unfair advantage to any group of people? ...

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Texas, in this case the Hopwood plaintiffs filed suit but the U.S. office of Civil Rights had not determined if the state sufficiently desegregated and complied with federal civil rights laws. ... It is not required to compensate for unjust institutions of the distant past, 2. ... In support of the first injustice Christopher Morris argues that affirmative action is not required by the existence of unjust institutions in the distant past, such as slavery, because compensation is dude only to those who suffered the injustice. ...

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It would also prohibit federal civil rights enforcement agencies from seeking or agreeing to administrative or judicial orders prescribing affirmative action to remedy proven instances of discrimination that violate federal law or the constitution. ... Fairness requires ending biased practices, not perpetuating them, and that includes ending the unjust advantages traditionally enjoyed by whites and white men. ... Civil liberties are the personal rights and freedoms that the federal government cannot abridge, either by law, or judicial interpretation. During the civil rights movement, the Supre...

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However, the ratio of wrongful termination today, is more than the discrimination of unjust hiring (Pager & Western, 2012). The article suggested that the reduced level of discrimination at the point of hiring indicates that the law enforcement systems in the work places have been improved. However, the overall implementation of laws to avoid discrimination is still not observed. ... Through this research, field researchers were able to produce estimation for the rate of discrimination from the very start, evidences on the interactions, which are associated with the discrimination practices a...

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Affirmative action in college admissions should be outlawed because it is an unjust process which ends up promoting further discrimination, and it does not make up for America's past injustices toward minorities. ... In the same court case, it was stated by Michigan Law School's expert that "in 2000, 35 percent of underrepresented minority applicants were admitted. ... If affirmative action is considered constitutional under strict scrutiny, these statistics should not exist in a law-abiding university. ... "Undoubtedly[,] there are other ways to better the education of law students ...

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The truth is that the real world is plagued with unjust hatred and violence that continues to flourish despite the animosity and grief it creates. ... A crime consists of doing something that is against the law. ... The question on hand for many people is whether or not hate crimes should have separate laws and what people or affiliations should be covered under this law. ... Many people do not know the status of hate crime laws in their own state. Currently, forty-three states have enacted hate crime laws but twenty of them exclude offenses based on sexual orientation and eight states...

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Although affirmative action has opened the doors for minorities in the fields of education and multiple professions, it does so at an unjust and costly price. ... The negative consequences of affirmative action outweigh the benefits it produces, therefore producing an unjust policy. ... The affirmative action policy is "'contrary to our Constitution and laws'- (qtd. in Grapes 41). ...

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Whatever the reason, slavery was now against the law. ... Affirmative Action Laws AA laws prohibit discriminatory practices and bias treatment. AA laws are composed of federal and state statutes that are based upon the Constitution of the US. ... The AA Quota system was designed to redistribute the unjust enrichment of the past. ... In addition, AA laws allowed for minority student's admission in schools that would not have been accessibl...

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Throughout the book, the author fluidly transitions her arguments from the transgender's perspectives towards a careful deliberation on the laws that is perhaps imbalanced, unjust, and ultimately, perplexed and unexercised. ... Additionally, the range of policies and cases were limited, as the book is mainly focused on nondiscriminatory categories of state laws in the United States of America. ... An all-inclusive chapter of the book conjointly discussed the anti-discrimination and harassment laws that address the issues and grievances of transgenders in their workplaces. ... The disc...

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Both rebel against powerful men who impose an injustice on them "Antigone defies Creon's law, Medea gets revenge on Jason. ... At the same time she protests against unjust and tyrannical governments. ... Antigone, of course, rebels by burying the body of Polynices, breaking the laws of Creon. ... Her primary motivation is to uphold the law of the gods: "These laws "I was not about to break them, not out of fear of some man's wounded pride, and face the retribution of the gods."" (509-511) Perhaps, like Medea, she has a secondary motive "to protest against tyrannica...

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Scott's short essay "Smokers Get A Raw Deal," Scott's version of a non-smoker is unjust. ... He says "smokers must put up with virtually unenforceable laws regulating when and where they can smoke. ...

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At UC Berkeley, African Americans made up 6.3% of freshmen in 1995 and 3.4% last fall. " This drop in enrollment of African Americans at California state colleges may be due in part to Proposition 209, passed as a law in 1996, which eliminates affirmative action measures in California in both the workplace and college. ... And gaining entry to America's elite universities is difficult; the perception, right or wrong, that race can in some circumstances trump merit strikes many as unjust, not least because universities play a large role in social mobility. " The main problem with affi...

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The laws surrounding sexual harassment have there own guidelines, like the Civil Rights Act of 1964, under the Title VII. ... This is something that is against the law and can be upheld through the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). ... They both filled a law suit of 10 million dollars against the company. ... Receiving less pay than the same qualified man at the same position is just wrong and unjust. ... The laws and guidelines of sexual harassment are often written as if sexual harassment is only a male to female thing. ...

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Justice is defined as the upholding of what is just, especially fair treatment and due reward in accordance with honor, standards, or law; the principle of moral rightness. I will use the principles of Kant, Bentham/Mill, and Plato to help show why some particular sexist and racist actions are wrong or unjust. ... Supreme Court ruled that the segregation law was unconstitutional and the Montgomery buses were integrated. ...

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In response to the victory of the North, the United States added to the Constitution the Thirteenth Amendment, which abolished slavery, as well as the Fourteenth Amendment, which guarantees equal protection of rights of all individuals under the law. ... Thus, affirmative action appears to provide an unjust payment to those minorities who have suffered discrimination in the past in terms of acceptance to colleges and jobs on account of race, obviously challenging the original purpose of affirmative action. ... It puts us all on the same footing, and it implies the necessity of colorblind la...

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In response to the victory of the North, the United States added to the Constitution the Thirteenth Amendment, which abolished slavery, as well as the Fourteenth Amendment, which guarantees equal protection of rights of all individuals under the law. ... Thus, affirmative action appears to provide an unjust payment to those minorities who have suffered discrimination in the past in terms of acceptance to colleges and jobs on account of race, obviously challenging the original purpose of affirmative action. ... It puts us all on the same footing, and it implies the necessity of colorblind la...

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The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was a major step in reducing de jure or law based discrimination but was unable to cease deep seeded de facto or actual discrimination in American society. ... Programs that force employers to fire valuable employees or create new positions just for minority groups are not just bad for business, they are just as unjust as the discrimination that created this situation in the first place. ... This law was the first of its kind, but more than twenty states are currently working on similar measures. ... When the constitutionality of Proposition 209 was challenged to t...

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The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was a major step in reducing de jure or law based discrimination but was unable to cease deep seeded de facto or actual discrimination in American society. ... Programs that force employers to fire valuable employees or create new positions just for minority groups are not just bad for business, they are just as unjust as the discrimination that created this situation in the first place. ... This law was the first of its kind, but more than twenty states are currently working on similar measures. ... When the constitutionality of Proposition 209 was challenged to t...

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The initial principal that birthed Affirmative Action as a policy or law of the land, was to create a means by which America could right the wrongs of the impact of 245 years of slavery, as well as the impact that other kinds of discrimination have had on specific groups of American society. ... Throughout the life span of our young country there have been millions of unjust incidences of discrimination, wrong doings and even cases of murder, that were based on the color of one's skin, gender, religion, sexual orientation and other characteristic's of persona. ...

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Unfortunately, one's outer appearance defines what people think of them, and this generates many disputes among people.Men,women, and children of all orientations, races, ethnicities and backgrounds are subject to unjust discrimination everyday of their lives;therefore, a solution must be found before it destroys more lives. ... As known, police and the law should play justice and equality in the society, but even they're being injustice to African/American people, by not treating them equally and providing them with security as provided to others. ...

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The well renowned professor of law at Yale, Peter Schuck described affirmative action as "A program in which people who control access to important social resources offer preferential access to those resources for particular groups that they think need special treatment" (Schuck 5.) ... In fact, as we are experiencing today, the government also created discriminating policies in the past, including Jim Crow laws and slavery. ... For a company to be able to only hire from a certain skin color is unjust. ...

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In a time when it is en vogue to push the issue of cultural diversity, many people feel that they are unjustly being excluded because they are not a racial minority. ... In his Supreme Court opinion criticizing Affirmative Action, Thomas stated that he could find no moral difference between "laws designed to subjugate a race" and laws that benefit a race "in order to foster some current notion of equality." ...

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Eventually, these laws expanded to incorporate women and other ethnic minorities including American Indians and Hispanics. Laws have also broadened affirmative action to public universities as well as businesses. ... This discrimination is unjust and uncalled for. ... Two other prominent states have or are considering laws affecting admissions in universities. After a Federal appeals court threw out the University of Texas' admission system favoring minorities in 1996, Texas passed a state law guaranteeing the top 10 percent of graduates from every Texas high school a spot at any publi...

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In the stories "Raymond's Run" and "Gorilla My Love," Toni Cade Bambara, writes about unusual heroines - both called Hazel. However the character in "Raymond's Run," is known as and is referred to as Squeaky, mainly because of her voice, and because of the way that she is presented. To the reader, i...

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