People are debating weather the Federal and Local Governments actually enforce the meaning of the Fifth and the Fourteenth Amendments. Is the government doing their job? Do these amendments have any affect on today's society? .
These two amendments are used over a million times a day, and they affect every person in the United States weather they realize it or not. In 1954 the Supreme Court overruled the segregation of students in schools because it deprived them of "the equal protection of the laws guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment." (Document 1) Segregation was abolished and will never be back in public schools because of this ruling based off the Fourteenth Amendment. The students in today's society are accustomed to going to school and sitting next to another student of a different color. If it weren't for the Fourteenth Amendment and the ruling of Brown v. Board of Education the kids in today's society might be prejudice to any person not in his/her segregated area. In 1975, several students were suspended from school without any due process at all. Students were not told why they were being suspended and they were not given a chance to speak out. When D. Lopez decided to take the schools decision to the Supreme Court, "the Court said that oral or written notice of the charges brought against a student must be given to the student who is being suspended for more than a trivial period." (Document 5) This is why if a student in today's public school is suspended, he/she is given a written notice and an oral conference is held between the student and a school official. This ruling of Goss v. Lopez shows that due process is not only practiced for adults but for everyone.
The Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments don't only help students in school to be equal but the amendments help every citizen with everyday issues. Take getting a job for example, in 1964 a law was passed making it illegal to "refuse to hire or to discharge any individual" "because of such individual's race, color religion, sex, or national origin.