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Inherently Suspect
Invalid unless "compelling public interest"
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African Americans
- 1 slavery- civil war
- 2 reconstruction- 1954
- 1954 to present day
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African American civil rights (slavery- reconstruction)
Dred scot case (scott vs sanford), 3/5 comprimise
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De jure
Segregation by law (jim crow laws)
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De facto
By fact: by neiborhoods, states, membership
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Reasonable
Type of segregation: rational relationship to lefit go. Purpose. Examples: amusment park rides, voting age, drinking age. Abortion standards.
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Intermediate scrutiny
Case by case, moderatly difficult to meet. Open to interpretation usually by gender (employmenr, firefighters, Draft
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Civil rights
- Equality by 14th ammendment (equal process under law)
- Policies designed to protect people against arbitrary or discriminatory treatment by government officials or individuals
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Brown vs Board of Education of Topeka
Ended segragated schools reversed plessy vs furfusen "seperat eis inheretly unequal"
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Scott v. Sandford
1857. Supreme Court ruled that a slave who had excaped to a free state enjoyed no rihgts as a citizen and the Congress had no authority to ban slavery in the territories.
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Thirteenth Ammendment
Ratified avter Civil War, forbade slavery and involentary servitude.
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Civil Rights Act of 1964
this law made racial discrimination against any group in hotels, motels, and restaurants illigal and forbade many forms of job discrimination
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