POLS 1101 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Equal Protection Clause

• School: KSU
• Department: Political Science and International Affairs
• Course: POLS 1101
• Professor: Bruce Flower

Document Summary

The idea that laws and legal proceedings must be fair. 5th amendment: rights of persons: grand juries, double jeopardy, self-incrimination, due process, eminent domain. In 1892, homer adolph plessy, who was seven-eighths caucasian, took a seat in a. He refused to move to the car reserved for blacks and was arrested. Plessy argued that louisiana"s law mandating racial segregation was an unconstitutional infringement on both the privileges and immunities granted by the 14th amendment and its equal protection clause. Scotus disagreed; the majority upheld state-imposed segregation. Based their decision on separate-but-equal doctrine, which held that separate facilities for blacks and whites satisfied the fourteenth. Three years later, scotus extended the separate-but-equal doctrine to the schools: the justices ignored the fact that black educational facilities were far from equal to those reserved for whites. By the end of the 19th century, legal racial segregation was firmly entrenched in the.