Race discrimination
CLEP American Government, Chapter 24 Race discrimination The Equal Protection Clause emerged from Reconstruction and is centrally concerned with racial discrimination by government. Brown v. Board of Education held state-imposed racial segregation in public schools unconstitutional, rejecting the idea that separate educational facilities could be equal. A law that classifies people by race on its […]
Strict scrutiny
CLEP American Government, Chapter 24 Strict scrutiny Strict scrutiny is the most demanding principal standard of equal-protection review. It applies to express governmental racial classifications and to many laws that unequally burden a recognized fundamental right. Government must prove a compelling interest and show that the chosen means are narrowly tailored to that interest. Narrow […]
