'Simple Justice'

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This paper discusses three concepts taken from the book "Simple Justice" by Richard Kluger.The book is about the Brown v. Board of Education decision by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1954.
The paper notes the forces involved in the decision, political considerations, and how the idea of "stare decisis" played a role both as a forming influence and as something to be overcome.

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" An important concept discussed by Richard Kluger in his book 'Simple Justice' is the concept of stare decisis, meaning giving deference to earlier decisions. In the case of Brown v. Board of Education, one precedent involved was the Plessy v. Ferguson decision, embodying the idea of "separate but equal" in a decision by Justice Brown and seven other justices who found that "racially separate facilities, so long as they were equal, could legally be ordained by the state; segregation was not discrimination" (Kluger 81). In that decision, Brown wrote that the Justices considered the argument of the plaintiff to be false, "that enforced separation of the two races stamps the colored race with a badge of inferiority" (Kluger 80). Under stare decisis, this decision was used to justify much segregation and discrimination thereafter. "

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