Word: equality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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September is a time when all teams stand equal with 0-0 marks, when all coaches hold equally great expectations for the future--in this case, for the Class...
...took less than 72 hours for the Harvard women's volleyball team to equal its 1986-87 regular season win total...
...nation's 104th Supreme Court Justice offer something more. At issue on the 200th birthday of the Constitution will be the most fundamental questions at the heart of that document and in the soul of the nation it constituted: What inalienable rights -- ranging from free speech to equal justice to personal privacy -- are guaranteed to citizens by the highest law of the land? Because Bork's ascension to the chair of Lewis Powell could decisively shift the court to the right on these issues, the outcome could affect the course of American law and society well into the 21st century...
...Equal protection. A central instrument of court power has been the 14th & Amendment. Though drafted in the post-Civil War era chiefly to ensure just treatment for blacks, it extends its guarantees of due process and equal protection under the law to "any person," allowing the court to invoke it to cover women, aliens, illegitimate children and sometimes the poor. Bork defends the landmark Brown v. Board of Education school desegregation case on the ground that the intent of the 14th Amendment contains the "core" idea of protecting blacks from government discrimination. But he finds no similar intent to protect...
Even in clear-cut racial cases, Bork hesitates to wield the equal protection clause when it conflicts with majority wishes. He has criticized the court for striking down a provision added by referendum to the California state constitution that would have allowed discrimination in the sale or leasing of property...