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Civil Rights and the Power of Peace

This case led to the desegregation of America's public schools and has had a lasting effect on American law and politics.
             In the Plessy vs. Ferguson, of 1896 the Supreme Court of the United States upheld the legality of racial segregation. Homer Plessy was a "passenger [on a train] between two stations within the states of Louisiana. " however he was "seven-eighths Caucasian and one-eighth black " --the amount of African American in his blood was hardly visible on his complexion-- and was arrested and put on trial for sitting in the "White " section of the train and violating Louisiana's Separate Car Act. Plessy went to court and argued that the Separate Car Act violated the "equal " protection of the law clause Fourteenth Amendment. In the end the Supreme Court found Plessy guilty and ruled that racial segregation was legal and it did not violate the 14th Amendment of the Constitution of the United States as long as the separate facilities for Blacks and Whites were "equal".".
             Everything was segregated and separate, but certainly not equal, and "between 1920 and 1940, the pattern of segregated schools spread throughout the United States " and "the equality of education for Black Americans was consistently inferior. " Many of the Black students felt as if they were receiving an education that was inferior to that of the White students. In early 1950's in Topeka, Kansas all public institutions, had a separate "White " and "Black " facility. Public schools did not allow Black students to attend their "White " schools. Students had to travel across town due to Residential Segregation. With the help of the NAACP Brown appeal to the United States Supreme Court stated that "separate schools are unequal, and therefore, the fourteenth amendment was being violated " and in 1954 U.S. Supreme Court conclude that state laws requiring "separate but equal schools violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.


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2. States of Nature

... the state of nature has only the authority to enforce the law of nature. Given this, man has the right to punish any transgressors, however natural law simply demands the limitation that the punishment must fit the crime: "And that all men may be restrained from invading others' rights, and from doing hurt to one another, and the law of Nature be observed, which willeth the peace and preservation of all mankind, the execution of the law of Nature is in that state [of ... , settled, know law-; "a known and indifferent judge-; and the "power to back and support the sentence."" From this, L...

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4. John Locke and Politics

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