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Compare de facto segregation and de jure segregation. In Plessy v. Ferguson, on what did the Supreme Court base their conclusions? Examine how their decision reflects de jure and/or de facto segregation.
 
  Distinguish the decision in Plessy v. Ferguson from that in Brown v. Board of Education? Evaluate the extent to which de facto segregation leads to inequality, and illustrate your answer with two examples.
 
  What will be an ideal response?

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Under the intermediate scrutiny standard, government enactments that relied on gender would be constitutional under what condition?
 
  a. if the use of gender in the enactment were necessary and proper
  b. if the use of gender were substantially related to an important governmental interest
  c. if the use of gender were marginally related to a secondary governmental objective
  d. if the use of gender were ordered by the president to implement an executive order



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Answer to Question 1

An ideal response will:
1, Compare de facto segregation, which results from the decisions of private individuals, with de jure segregation, which is legally mandated segregation.
2, Explain how Plessy v. Ferguson upheld de jure discrimination in the form of Jim Crow laws as permissible as long as the facilities were equal.
3, Explain how Brown v. Board of Education overturned the separate-but-equal doctrine, arguing that de jure segregation necessarily produced inequality.
4, Evaluate whether citizens' private decisions to segregate lead to inequality. Those who believe that it does may point to the same logic used by the Supreme Court in Brown v. Board of Education. Those who believe that it does not may point to the fact that the two concepts are completely distinct: Individuals can be both segregated and equal or both integrated and unequal.
5, Illustrate the relationship between de facto segregation and inequality with two examples. For example, describe whether residential neighborhoods and churches (two entities with de facto segregation) promote inequality.

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