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Blacks cannot be citizens
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Abolishment of Slavery
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Introduced the Equal Protection clause.
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Voting rights cannot be denied based on race.
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Poll taxes were first introduced in the 1890's, they added a tax to voting, disenfranchising many, mostly black Americans.
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Upheld separate but equal, segregation remained legal.
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Suffrage for women, voting cannot be denied on account of sex.
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Congressmen first introduced the idea the ERA, which would remain in the public conscious for decades to come.
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Whites only election, blacks cannot vote.
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Truman endorsed an early type of affirmative action. "We must make the Federal government a friendly, vigilant defender of the rights and equalities of all Americans. And again, I mean all Americans." it had yet to be implemented.
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Separate but equal is inherently unequal, started desegregation.
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Reaffirmed the right to vote, explicitly banned poll taxes.
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Banned discrimination in housing and hiring. among other fields.
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Federal oversight of elections to counter disenfranchisement .
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Men cannot be preferred to women and vice versa in regard to an estate and who gets the inheritance. No preference to sex.
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Is Affirmative action legal? Yes as long as its not explicitly including race.
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Upheld Georgia sodomy law.
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Prohibits discrimination based on disability
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Legislation that required state governments to allow registration when a qualifying voter applied for or renewed their drivers license or applied for social services
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Criminalization of consensual adult sexual activities is unconstitutional.
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Same sex marriage is legalized and must be recognized