To establish justice: citizenship and the Constitution

America was founded on the idea of liberty for all. But it has not always achieved that ideal. To Establish Justice is an honest and powerful examination of the Supreme Court's role in legalizing-or negating-civil rights for various groups. From the struggles of Native Americans at the country&...

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Hauptverfasser: McKissack, Pat 1944-2017 (VerfasserIn), Zarembka, Arlene (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York Knopf 2004
Ausgabe:1st ed.
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Zusammenfassung:America was founded on the idea of liberty for all. But it has not always achieved that ideal. To Establish Justice is an honest and powerful examination of the Supreme Court's role in legalizing-or negating-civil rights for various groups. From the struggles of Native Americans at the country's birth to the African American civil rights movement of the 1960s, from the vote for women to the internment of the Japanese during World War II, To Establish Justice shows how the Supreme Court has paved the way for both justice and discrimination, and how this important arm of our government has impacted all of our lives
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (p. 150-151) and index
"To Say What the Law Is...": Who Defines the Rights of Citizens? -- "A Domestic Dependent Nation": Can Citizens Take the Land of Noncitizens? -- "Beings of an Inferior Order": Can African Americans Ever Be Citizens? -- "Enforced Separation of the Races": Can Citizens Be Segregated by Race? -- "The Respective Spheres and Destinies of Man and Woman": Should Women Have the Same Rights as Men? -- "The Ugly Abyss of Racism": What Rights Do Immigrants and Their Children Have? -- "Separate Educational Facilities Are Inherently Unequal": Is Separate Equal? -- "To Banish the Blight of Racial Discrimination": Enforcing Equality -- "Separate and Unequal": Should a Citizen's Gender Affect the Constitutional Interpretation of the Law? -- "A Regime of State-Mandated Segregation and Degradation": Does the Equal Protection Clause Apply to People with Disabilities? -- "The Constitution Neither Knows nor Tolerates Classes Among Citizens": Should Sexual Minorities Be Entitled to Equal Rights? -- "...Nor Deny to Any Person": Should Students Have the Same Rights as Adults? -- "Race Unfortunately Still Matters": The Debate over Affirmative Action -- The U.S. Constitution & Its Amendments
Beschreibung:154 p. zahlr. Ill. 25 cm
ISBN:0679893083
9780679893080
0679993088
9780679993087

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