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- From: mjs@fc.hp.com (Marc Sabatella)
- Subject: Re: Constitution
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- References: <1992Nov17.061951.26830@ucsu.Colorado.EDU>
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- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 17:43:15 GMT
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- Frank Crary (fcrary@ucsu.Colorado.EDU) wrote:
- :
- : The law in question was a federal exemption from literacy tests (in
- : order to vote) for anyone with a sixth-grade or better education in
- : a Puerto Rican, spanish-speeking school. One of the objections
- : was that this law denied equal protection to educated, speakers
- : of Spanish, simply because they were not educated in Puerto Rico.
- : The Court held that there a law did not have to deal with all
- : forms of discrimination at once: It was acceptable to offer one
- : group protection without offering another group the same protection.
-
- OK, as a non-legal person, this still doesn't seem particularly relevant.
- Obviously it is implicitly OK not to protect everyone equally - there are
- laws protecting blacks, but not laws protecting left-handed people, and no one
- has struck that down as constitutional. If there was a constitutional
- amendment that said "People with an education from Mexico shall never be
- granted the federal exemption from literacy tests", do you think the Supreme
- Court would have upheld it?
-
- --
- Amendment 2 - Shame On You, Colorado
- --
- Marc Sabatella
- marc@hpmonk.fc.hp.com
- --
- a disgusted resident of the first state in history of the union
- to enact a constitutional amendment that explicitly legalizes discrimination
- against a particular minority
- --
- All opinions expressed herein are my personal ones
- and do not necessarily reflect those of HP or anyone else.
-