SOC 134 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Equal Protection Clause
27 Apr 2019
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African-american (slave or free) were not, nor could ever be, citizens of the united states. This became known as the "separate but equal" doctrine. Justice harlan was not for this; he didn"t like it. Chinese immigration and denied reentry to previous immigrants. Driven largely by economic competition between chinese and. A clear violation of the 14th amendment"s equal protection clause. Supreme court ruled that national security concerns justified the interment. More broadly, the court created a constitutional test for state-imposed race/ethnic classifications: strict. The classification must be "narrowly tailored" to achieve a "compelling" government objective. Racial and ethnic classifications are presumed illegal unless the state can meet this burden. Throughout the 1940s and 1950s, the supreme court chips away at legal segregation while technically still upholding. Tried to create a law school for just african. Brown vs. board of education (1954) dismantles separate but equal and the foundation of legal segregation. Numerous rulings in the 1960s struck down segregation laws.
