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| the state of being subject only to laws established for the good of the community, especially with regard to freedom of action and speech. |
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| legal but may be restricted by the states to varying degrees. |
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| he Supreme Court ruled that a state's ban on the use of contraceptives violated the right to marital privacy. |
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| Court resolved this balancing test by tying state regulation of abortion to the third trimester of pregnancy. |
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| planned parenthood v casey |
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| aw required informed consent and a 24 hour waiting period prior to the procedure. A minor seeking an abortion required the consent of one parent (the law allows for a judicial bypass procedure). A married woman seeking an abortion had to indicate that she notified her husband of her intention to abort the fetus. |
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| upheld the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003. |
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| constitutionality of a Georgia sodomy law criminalizing oral and anal sex in private between consenting adults, in this case with respect to homosexual sodomy |
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| making same-sex sexual activity legal in every U.S. state and territory. |
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| parents medical decisions |
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| right to make decisions about their own medical care. Because young children are not able to make complex decisions for themselves, the authority to make medical decisions on behalf of a child usually falls to the child's parents. |
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| upheld state racial segregation laws for public facilities under the doctrine of "separate but equal" |
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| declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional |
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| outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. |
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| voting descrimination 15th amd |
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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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| a tax levied on every adult, without reference to income or resources. |
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| being unable to pay poll tax does not deny you right to vote |
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| U.S. Supreme Court found that Virginia's poll tax was unconstitutional under the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment |
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| primary elections held in the Southern United States in which only white voters were permitted to participate. |
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| overturned the Texas state law that authorized the Democratic Party to set its internal rules, including the use of white primaries. The court ruled that it was unconstitutional for the state to delegate its authority over elections to the Democratic Party in order to allow discrimination to be practiced |
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| amending the Fair Labor Standards Act, aimed at abolishing wage disparity based on sex |
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| bona fide occupational requirements |
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| quality or an attribute that employers are allowed to consider when making decisions on the hiring and retention of employees – a quality that when considered in other contexts would constitute discrimination and thus be in violation of civil rights employment law |
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| concerning the constitutionality of Executive Order 9066, which ordered Japanese Americans into internment camps during World War II regardless of citizenship. |
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| americans w dissabilities act |
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| prohibits discrimination based on disability. It affords similar protections against discrimination |
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| policy of favoring members of a disadvantaged group who suffer or have suffered from discrimination within a culture |
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| occurs when an employee resigns as a result of the employer creating a hostile work environment. |
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| economic interest group. Economic interest groups advocate for the economic benefit of their members and constituents. |
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| a loose coalition of groups and organizations with common goals that are oriented toward mass action and popular participation and share the intention of influencing the government. |
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| techniques used by interest groups |
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Lobbying techniques
Rating government officials
Building alliances
Offering campaign assistance |
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| swann v charlotte machlinburg |
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| the busing of students to promote integration in public schools.[1] The Court held that busing was an appropriate remedy for the problem of racial imbalance in schools, even when the imbalance resulted from the selection of students based on geographic proximity to the school rather than from deliberate assignment based on race |
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| formal organizations, while social movements are coalitions of many groups and individuals. |
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