Affirmative Action

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Affirmative Action was created to obliterate the wrongs that white Americans had done to individuals because of color, race, religion, and gender, depriving them of the rights of equality guaranteed them under American constitutional law. The Declaration of Independence, adopted on July 4, 1776, stated that all men are created equal and endowed with the unalienable rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

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"Is Affirmative Action Defensible Under the Constitution?

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Affirmative Action was created to obliterate the wrongs that white Americans had done to individuals because of color, race, religion, and gender, depriving them of the rights of equality guaranteed them under American constitutional law. The Declaration of Independence, adopted on July 4, 1776, stated that all men are created equal and endowed with the unalienable rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. These tenets were embodied in the Constitution in 1787 and in the amendments that followed. But the equality was on paper only. At the time when the Declaration of Independence was written, there were 125,000 black slaves who were in no way considered equal to their white masters. Even after Lincoln s act of emancipation, the color of the..."

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