1. The three levels of scrutiny the Supreme Court uses to determine whether a particular form of discrimination is permissible are if the discrimination serves a valid public interest, race, constitution, and public policy. Some discrimination is warranted, like age discrimination which is still mandating a certain group to or from doing certain actions.
2. What was so dramatic about the Supreme Courts’ decision in Brown v. Board of Education was that it went against decades of tradition and was not accepted by the majority consensus, which was not typical in the rulings of the Supreme Court. This decision evidently enough, had little to no effect immediately after the ruling towards the schools in America, and in fact the Colored Schools remained in ruin and instead erected make shift paper huts students would have class in.
3. Although the fifteenth amendment granted the right to vote to African-Americans, the south did not yet recognize the legitimacy of it and enacted poll taxes and white primaries to keep African-Americans from voting. These devices were removed by the twenty-fourth amendment (1964) and prohibited poll taxes and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 further guaranteed African-Americans the right to vote.
4. The new entrants of the civil rights movement include homosexuals, Native Americans, Hispanics, and Asian Americans. Native Americans were the oldest inhabiting peoples of North America and were pushed off their lands in order for the white man to expand. They fought for their tribal rights and the U.S. government appeased them by giving them reservations which in actuality was not a equitable reimbursement. Hispanics had a hard time in the same sense the Irish did, they immigrated and were willing to work for lower wages than the white man and fought for equality. Asian Americans were discriminated and oppressed during World War II and were never fully reimbursed other than a few families who received referendums.
The Term Paper on American Federalism Supreme Court
Federalism, by definition, is the division of government authority between at least two levels of government. In the United States, authority is divided between the state and national government. "Advocates of a strong federal system believe that the state and local governments do not have the sophistication to deal with the major problems facing the country" (Encarta. com). Even before the ...
5. Affirmative action groups gave a boost to groups who were disadvantaged and reimbursed them in this sense. Affirmative action although in a sense was a way to reach equality but also discriminated other groups, for instance whites who may have been better suited for a certain job than an African American and this angered many people in the public and private sector.
