Sex discrimination
CLEP American Government, Chapter 24 Sex discrimination Government classifications based on sex ordinarily receive intermediate scrutiny. Government must offer an exceedingly persuasive justification: its objective must be important, and the sex classification must be substantially related to that objective. The justification must describe the actual policy rather than a rationale invented after litigation begins. This […]
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 […]
