POL 102 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Free Rider Problem, The New Jim Crow, National American Woman Suffrage Association
9 Aug 2018
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Civil rights: freedom to participate in the life of the community- to vote, use public facilities, and exercise equal economic opportunity. Seven steps to political equality: a group defines itself. The courts use three categories to determine if acts violate the 14th amendment. Suspect categories: any legislation facing/involving race, ethnicity, etc will face strict scrutiny: the standard by which courts judge an legislation that singles out a group. Quasi-suspect categories: a legal standard that requires government to have an important state purpose for any legislation that singles out sex or gender. This is not as strong as the suspect category, which requires strict scrutiny. Non-suspect categories: other categories do not face special scrutiny. By the middle of the nineteenth century, the dream of freedom had become a kind of religious faith in the slave quarters. 3 additional forces precipitated a national crisis over slavery. A moral crusade for abolition, economic interests, political calculations.
