American Government
1st EditionGlen Krutz
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Politics in States and Communities
15th EditionSusan A. MacManus, Thomas R. Dye
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American Corrections
11th EditionMichael D. Reisig, Todd R. Clear
160 solutions
Criminal Justice in America
9th EditionChristina Dejong, Christopher E. Smith, George F Cole
105 solutions
Determine which of the following statements is best supported by this quote from a New York Times article.
The [North Carolina] congressional delegation, in a purple state in which neither party had a distinct edge, was at the time made up of 10 Republicans and three Democrats. A key goal, lawmakers said, was "to maintain the current partisan makeup of North Carolina's congressional delegation.""I think electing
Republicans is better than electing Democrats," explained David Lewis, a Republican member of the General Assembly's redistricting committee. "So I drew this map to help foster what I think is better for the country."
Source: Adam Liptak, "Supreme Court Bars Challenges to Partisan Gerrymandering," New York Times, June 27, 2019
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Read the following excerpt from the 1896 Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson.
"The object of the [Fourteenth] amendment was undoubtedly to enforce the absolute equality of the two races before the law, but, in the nature of things, it could not have been intended to abolish distinctions based upon color, or to enforce social, as
distinguished from political, equality, or a commingling of the two races upon terms unsatisfactory to either. Laws permitting, and even requiring, their separation in places where they are liable to be brought into contact do not necessarily imply the inferiority of either race to the other, and have been generally, if not universally recognized as within the competency of the state legislatures in the exercise of their police power. The most common instance of this is connected with the
establishment of separate schools for white and colored children..."
What was the intended effect of this reasoning?
American Government
1st EditionGlen Krutz
412 solutions
American Corrections
11th EditionMichael D. Reisig, Todd R. Clear
160 solutions
Criminal Justice in America
9th EditionChristina Dejong, Christopher E. Smith, George F Cole
105 solutions
Government in America: Elections and Updates Edition
16th EditionGeorge C. Edwards III, Martin P. Wattenberg, Robert L. Lineberry
269 solutions