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Blacks are ruled as not American citizens, being labeled as property, and are thus deemed unfit to argue for their freedom in a court.
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Slavery of any form is banned for all men, save for those within custody of the prison system.
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Equal rights and protections under the law are promised. Giving the formerly enslaved the same rights as everyone else in theory. Does not work in practice.
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Ensures the right to vote of all men of acceptable voting age, once again, in theory. In practice not so much.
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A sum of money must be paid to a local official to vote, prices are generally set far too high for the poor to afford to pay.
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Primaries to elect candidates where only white voters were allowed to attend. Leading to only white candidates being chosen as no African Americans could attend to back their selected candidate.
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Racial segregation is allowed legally, as long as the separate areas are equal in quality, leading to the phrase "Separate but Equal."
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Right of women to vote is written into The Constitution.
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The ERA was a proposed amendment to end the legal distinctions between males in females in cases of divorce, employment, property and many other matters.
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The segregation of public schools is prohibited completely, regardless of the quality of the schools.
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Congress bans the usage of poll taxes or any taxes of any kind to bar the right of any man to vote.
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Discrimination based on race, sex, religion or national origin is formally banned by the U.S. government.
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Denying someones right to vote based on their race is formally banned, yet again, this time with moderately more success.
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The preference of a race above others in admissions.
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Administrators prohibited from being required to have a preference of employees based on sexuality.
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Affirmative action upheld. Race is allowed to be one of the factors colleges can use to decide acceptance.
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Sexual acts of the Oral and Anal nature are prohibited by the Federal government.
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Discrimination against the physically and mentally impaired is prohibited by the government. Acting much like the Civil Rights Act of 1964, but for the disabled.
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Bowers v. Hardwick overturned, it is ruled that what 2 consenting adults do in the privacy of their home is not an issue of the government's concern .
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Homosexual marriage is no longer prohibited by the Federal Government.