Ch 6 Flashcards
Separate but equal doctrine
The doctrine established in plessy v Ferguson that African Americans could constitutionally be kept separate but equal in facilities
Suspect classification
Classification of people based on their race or ethnicity laws so classifying people are subject to strict scrutiny
De jure segregation
Racial segregation that is required by law
De facto segregation
Racial segregation that occurs in schools not as a result of law but as a result of patterns of residential settlement
Civil disobedience
Opposing a law one considers unjust by peacefully disobeying it and accepting the resultant punishment
Police powers
State power to enact laws promoting health safety and morals
Equality of Results
Making certain that people achieve the same result
Affirmative action
Laws or administrative regulations that require a business firm government agency labor union school college or other organization to take positive steps to increase the number of African Americans other minorities or women in its membership
Reverse discrimination
Using race or sex to give preferential treatment to some people
Equality of opportunity
Giving people an equal chance to succeed
Brown v board of education
Said separate public schools at inherently unequal this starting racial desegregation
Plessy v Ferguson
Upheld separate but equal facilities for white and black peoples on railroad cars
Scott v Sanford
Congress had no authority to ban slavery in a territory. A slave was considered a piece of property
Reed v reed
Gender discrimination violate the equal protection clause of the Constitution
Griswold v Connecticut
Found a right to privacy in the constitution that would ban any law against selling contraceptives
Roe v wade
State laws prohibiting abortion were unconstitutional
Regents of the university of California v baake
Was a landmark decision by the Supreme Court of the United States. It upheld affirmative action allowing race to be one of the several factors in college admission policy
US v Windsor
Is a landmark civil rights case in which the United States Supreme Court held that restricting us federal interpretation of marriage and spouse to apply only to heterosexual Union
Strict scrutiny
The most stringent standard of judicial review used by United States courts. It is the hierarchy of standards that courts use to weigh the governments interest against a constitutional right or principle
Civil rights
The rights of people to be treated without unreasonable or unconstitutional differences
