Equal Rights Amendment

is effecting people. How race can make some people feel inferior to others or even how race can make you fear for your life. One of the major things that Coates discusses is how when he was younger he would walk out of his house and look left and right for danger. He talks about how people never had faith in him throughout his life. How as a kid his mother taught him how to read and write and how by writing about things that he did wrong really made him think about his actions. He also talked…

refer to conduct assessed as sinful or inherently wrong by nature, independent of regulations governing the conduct” (Clark). Murderers, rapists, human traffickers: these criminals, and so many more, cannot be given the rights that have been justly taken from them. Their rights have been seized because they have so greatly refused to be functioning members to our society. These men and women, especially based on recently opened statistics, do not deserve to have any involvement in politics…

Abigail Adam’s early signs of Feminism Feminism is an organized effort to give women the same economic, social, and political rights as men. Abigail Adams, the wife of John Adams, supported early ideas of feminism or women’s rights, she focused most importantly on girls getting an education, she developed these ideas from her marriage to John and her influential childhood. First, Abigail Adams felt very strongly about girls receiving an education. Judith Sargent Murray felt strongly about…

Separate but equal is a common phrase heard throughout history based on the discrimination against African Americans at that time. This ideology of segregation was especially enforced by the U.S. Supreme Court case of Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896. The case starts with Homer Plessy’s decision to sit on the white only side on the railroads even though he is a person of color. Plessy ended up being arrested for his refusal of sitting on the seats for African Americans since it is a Louisiana law to…

violating his constitutional rights. This case started because Homer Plessy challenged the 1875 Civil Rights act that all races were entitled to equal accommodations and facilities in public places. Plessy was removed from the East Louisiana Railroad train and arrested because he violated the separate but equal clause set in place that separated train car seats by race. It spoke about racial segregation laws and bills for places and accommodations under the separate but equal clause. The…

most well known landmark supreme court cases. It primarily argues the “separate but equal” segregation and Jim Crow laws that emerged post-civil war. The outcome of this case was entirely justified, at the time, because it still met the principles in the thirteen and fourteen amendments. Additionally, Plessy's argument was still undermined with the fact that the state was still keeping facilities “separate but equal.” The main people involved in the case are Homer Plessy, John H. Ferguson, and…

believe and worship as we choose in the United States. The separation of church and state is part of the genius of our Constitution, but it is the First Amendment free exercise clause that is increasingly being infringed upon, constraining religious liberty, particularly Christianity. I believe we are entering into a war to retain this right. Peer pressure is being used to exploit our human need to be accepted and liked by those around us to force agendas contrary to our faith. Our country’s…

whether or not racial segregation is constitutional under the separate but equal doctrine. The second case is about Brown v Board of Education which decided that state laws requiring separate but equal schools violated the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment. Both cases had a powerful effect on the precedents that we now have in today's justice system. Plessy v Ferguson established the doctrine of “Separate but Equal” and Brown v Board of Education concluded that separate public…

foundation for society on the Declaration of Independence. The impact of the fourteenth amendment is richly observed along the road to Brown and directly addresses…

Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas (1954), was a landmark case, impacting the public school system with making segregation within the school system a violation against the law. It showed how separate but equal no longer make sense in America. Leading up to the groundbreaking court case, the country was divided by segregation. In the south, there were Jim Crow Laws and the white population trying to limit the power the African-American had within the community. While in the north there…