Assignment #2 -- Equal Protection

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Assignment #2 -- Equal Protection

Krista Fantin 15 Nov 2010 21:01

1. What is meant by "equal protection of the laws"?
2. What was the "separate but equal" doctrine and what was its effect?
3. Why did the Supreme Court abandon "separate but equal" in Brown v. Board of Education?

Re: Assignment #2 -- Equal Protection

Krista Fantin 15 Nov 2010 21:07

Be sure to build on each others' answers — the goal is not for each person to answer all questions thoroughly. The goal is for us to have a complete answer as an entire class when you add up what each of us says all together.

There's an advantage to going first!

Re: Assignment #2 -- Equal Protection

Adriane J Hicks 17 Nov 2010 00:51

1.) Equal protection of the laws is when for example you don't have to be a US Citizen, but because you're on US soil you have certain rights under the law.

2) The separate but equal doctrine was the holding of the Supreme Court case Plessesy vs Fergurson, which was "separate facilities but equal resources is fine".

3) The Supreme Court abandoned "Separate but Equal" in Brown vs Board of Education because, they agreed with the NAACP that separate but equal had no place in schools. They said the school facilities would inherently be unequal.

Re: Assignment #2 -- Equal Protection

Calos Artola 17 Nov 2010 02:11

1.) The equal protection law say, "fair treatment for all persons regardless of sex, race, national organ, ect."(WTP BOOK) Witch means that for who ever you may be that you are equally and protected.

and the other ones i cant do because i dont have the book nut number 1 i know well because i did it in class. sorry :)

Re: Assignment #2 -- Equal Protection

Jamaar Bowser 17 Nov 2010 02:59

1.) Equal protection of the laws is when every person has equal treatment in law no matter the race or anything they do not have to be a citizen but you still have equal protection.

2.) The separate but equal doctrine was an agreement made by the supreme court that separate but equal was fair and equal.

3.) The Supreme Court abandoned separate but equal because it was not fair and gave whites better oprotunities and qualities.

Re: Assignment #2 -- Equal Protection

Nia Caracciolo 17 Nov 2010 21:01

1) Equal protection of the laws is a fair treatment for all persons regarding of sex, race, national origin, religion, or political views but still have to be equal with other citizens.

2) The separate but equal doctrine was an agreement that the Supreme Court that involved a case Plessy v. Ferguson that stated "separate facilities but equal resources is fine".

3) The Supreme Court abandoned separate but equal laws in the Brown v. Broad of Education because of the blacks schools didn't have the resources that more the students more educated. White students had books that weren't destroyed, tagged and they had graphs and maps. On the other hand, in black schools didn't have the ability to have the resources of whites children.

Re: Assignment #2 -- Equal Protection

LisaJohnson 18 Nov 2010 01:23

1.Equal protection of the law is being treated equally not depending on race, religion, gender, or political views.
2.the seperate but equal doctrine was being seprate depending on race but have equal resources.
3.the supreme court aboned seperate but equal because brown v. board said that schools were a discrimination and segregated

Re: Assignment #2 -- Equal Protection

tasheya 18 Nov 2010 01:35

1. the equal protection of the law is a law that make sure nobody is discriminated against no matter who they are or what they have.

2. the separate but equal doctrine was a law that kept segregation going but so called gave black the "equal" amount of things and education the whites had.

3. separate but equal was aboned because they realized there was no such as thing as equal but separate and everyone should have the same amount of things and things weren't equal.