Constitutional Equality

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Write a 700-word paper on Constitutional equality.

  • Discuss the US Supreme Court opinions in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), including the dissenting opinion by Justice Harlan, and the Brown v. Board of Education (1954) opinion from a Fourteenth Amendment (1868) legal rights perspective.
  • Discuss the rulings from the US Supreme Court in Civil Rights Cases (1883) and the Heart of Atlanta Motel v. United States (1964) case.
  • Explain the rationale used by the Court for upholding the Civil Rights Act of 1964, but not the Civil Rights Act of 1875.
  • Provide your opinion on the achievement of legislation regarding Constitutional Equality in America.

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RUNNING HEAD: CONSTITUTIONAL EQUALITY

Constitutional Equality
An Analysis of Equality in the U.S. Constitution

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Constitutional Equality

RUNNING HEAD: CONSTITUTIONAL EQUALITY

1.) Discuss the US Supreme Court opinions in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896),
including the dissenting opinion by Justice Harlan, and the Brown v. Board
of Education (1954) opinion from a Fourteenth Amendment (1868) legal
rights perspective.
Equality in society is pivotal in ensuring a civil and stable government structure.
Unfortunately, women, blacks, and other minority groups have struggled for the fight of equality
in a country that has embodied the concept of freedom and democracy. In 1892, the battle for the
equality of blacks to travel in the same rail-car as Whites was initiated with the arrest of Homer
Plessy. When the Separate Car Act was signed into law, railroad companies were required to
purchase additional cars and ensure that Whites and Blacks were segregated completely. The
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) will be a stain on the history of Supreme Court Jurisprudence and the
bigotry of those who once sat on the bench. In a 7-1 decision, The Court established the
"separate but equal" doctrine, which determined that racial segregation was not a violation of the
Fourteenth Amendment. The Court found that the Louisiana "Separate Car Act" was
constitutional because although equal rights are protected before the law, state-sponsored
segregation was constitutional because there was...


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