Item request has been placed!
×
Item request cannot be made.
×
Processing Request
GERRYMANDERED.
Item request has been placed!
×
Item request cannot be made.
×
Processing Request
- Author(s): Rosen, Jeffrey
- Source:
New Republic. 10/25/93, Vol. 209 Issue 17, p12-14. 2p.
- Subject Terms:
- Additional Information
- Subject Terms:
- Subject Terms:
- Abstract:
Discusses how much racial gerrymandering is permitted in the U.S. Constitution and required in the Voting Rights Act with reference to Justice Sandra Day O'Connor's opinion in Shaw versus Reno case. Amendments made in the Voting Act in 1982 giving minorities the power to challenge election systems throughout the country by emphasizing on discriminatory results; Comparison of O'Connor's opinion in Shaw versus Reno case with Justice Lewis Powell's opinion in Bakke, the affirmative action case; Need for the judicial system to re-examine the assumption that ethnic identity and political identity are always fungible.
No Comments.