POSC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Strict Scrutiny, Literacy Test
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Suspect categories : any law related to race, ethnicity, legal aliens faces strict scrutiny", must be a compelling government interest for singling out, law must be narrowly tailored. Quasi-suspect categories : any law related to gender/sex, must serve an important government purpose. Nonsuspect categories : laws regarding disability, sexual orientation, age, etc. should have rational connection to government purpose, no special scrutiny at this time (perhaps changing) African americans not deemed us citizens but property. 1790: congress limited naturalization to free white persons . Supreme court decision asserted that black people were not and could never be citizens, wheter free or enslaved. 14th: reversed dred scott: black people are citizens (1868) 15th: states cannot impede voting rights on basis of race, color, or former servitude (1870) Legally sanctioned segregation + denial of the vote in parts of the us. 1882: first of chinese exclusion laws laws passed (10 years ban on laborers)
