POLSCI 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Voting Rights Act Of 1965, Montgomery Bus Boycott, Civil Rights Cases
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Impossible, because we have inherently different starting points (this relates to negative liberty concepts) Equality of outcome: equal results (lack of incentives, never works) American equality is an ideal, not a reality. Civil rights: policies designed to protect marginalized social groups against discriminatory treatment by government officials or private parties (based on race, ethnicity, gender, age, etc. ) Civil liberties: as individuals, we should have equality, rights. Reasonable basis test: inequality is ok for government"s purposes. Strict scrutiny test: racial discrimination is assumed to be unconstitutional unless there is a compelling reason. 1915: guinn vs. united states: excludes whites from literacy tests for voting (because their. 1954 brown vs. board of education: overturned plessy v ferguson. Racial bussing to enforce de-segregation to meet goal of de facto desegregation. Southern manifesto: resist forced integration by any lawful means . Arkansas used national guards to prevent black students (little kids) from entering. Little rock"s high school eisenhower assumed control and removed troops.
