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scott was a slave in 1833 and went to court against his master. lost the case because the court ruled that if hes in a state that allows it he is still a slave
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A case in which the Court held that state-mandated segregation laws did not violate the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
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racial segregation of children in public schools was unconstitutional.
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prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin.
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It outlawed the discriminatory voting practices adopted in many southern states after the Civil War, including literacy tests as a prerequisite to voting
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US Supreme Court ruling that the administrators of estates cannot be named in a way that discriminates between sexes.
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use of racial "quotas" in its admissions process was unconstitutional, but a school's use of "affirmative action" to accept more minority applicants was constitutional in some circumstances.
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This law protects people from discrimination based on sex in education programs or activities that receive Federal financial assistance.
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prohibits discrimination on the basis of disability in employment, State and local government, public accommodations, commercial facilities, transportation, and telecommunications. It also applies to the United States Congress.
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Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
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All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
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The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude
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The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.
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5–4 decision that the Fourteenth Amendment requires all states to grant same-sex marriages
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