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  4. From: fcrary@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (Frank Crary)
  5. Subject: Re: Constitution
  6. Message-ID: <1992Nov17.061951.26830@ucsu.Colorado.EDU>
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  8. Nntp-Posting-Host: ucsu.colorado.edu
  9. Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
  10. References: <1992Nov13.164918.14150@ucsu.Colorado.EDU> <Bxty6L.FLJ@fc.sde.hp.com>
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  12. Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 06:19:51 GMT
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  14.  
  15. In article <Bxty6L.FLJ@fc.sde.hp.com> marc@hpmonk.fc.hp.com writes:
  16. >: However, the Supreme Court in Katzenbach v. Morgan ruled that inequal
  17. >: levels of protection against discrimination don't necessarily violate
  18. >: the Fourteenth Amendment.
  19. >For those of us not legal scholars, could you perhaps elaborate?
  20.  
  21. The law in question was a federal exemption from literacy tests (in
  22. order to vote) for anyone with a sixth-grade or better education in
  23. a Puerto Rican, spanish-speeking school. One of the objections
  24. was that this law denied equal protection to educated, speakers
  25. of Spanish, simply because they were not educated in Puerto Rico.
  26. The Court held that there a law did not have to deal with all
  27. forms of discrimination at once: It was acceptable to offer one
  28. group protection without offering another group the same protection.
  29.  
  30.                                                     Frank Crary
  31.                                                     CU Boulder
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