Civil Rights: A Staff Report of the Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate |
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... authority . The great break in the shackles imposed by this legal doctrine came when Congress , responding to a massive expression of national con- science , passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Title VII of the law prohibited job ...
... authority . The great break in the shackles imposed by this legal doctrine came when Congress , responding to a massive expression of national con- science , passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Title VII of the law prohibited job ...
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... Authority that private conduct otherwise in- sulated from the reach of the fourteenth amendment would be pro- hibited where Government either through action or inaction places its " power , property , and prestige behind the admitted ...
... Authority that private conduct otherwise in- sulated from the reach of the fourteenth amendment would be pro- hibited where Government either through action or inaction places its " power , property , and prestige behind the admitted ...
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... authority to seek injunctions in Federal courts on behalf of citizens who were discriminated against in education , employment , housing , public accommodations and in fed- erally - assisted activities . While the Attorney General's ...
... authority to seek injunctions in Federal courts on behalf of citizens who were discriminated against in education , employment , housing , public accommodations and in fed- erally - assisted activities . While the Attorney General's ...
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... authority to seek equitable relief granted to the Attorney General in the Civil Rights Act of 1964 undoubtedly would have been insufficient to desegregate public schools in resistant areas of the South . But in title VI of the Act ...
... authority to seek equitable relief granted to the Attorney General in the Civil Rights Act of 1964 undoubtedly would have been insufficient to desegregate public schools in resistant areas of the South . But in title VI of the Act ...
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... authority to make arrests for violations of the criminal civil rights laws and to protect the physical security of citizens when State and local officials failed to do so , this authority was not used even in extreme circumstances.29 As ...
... authority to make arrests for violations of the criminal civil rights laws and to protect the physical security of citizens when State and local officials failed to do so , this authority was not used even in extreme circumstances.29 As ...
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Page 242 - The Amendment must draw its meaning from the evolving standards of decency that mark the progress of a maturing society.
Page 70 - Employment, upgrading, demotion or transfer; recruitment or recruitment advertising; layoff or termination; rates of pay or other forms of compensation; and selection for training; Including apprenticeship. The Contractor agrees to post in conspicuous places, available to employees and applicants for employment, notices to be provided by the contracting officer setting forth the provisions of this nondiscrimination clause.
Page 180 - On the other hand, the interpretive guidelines published by the Office for Civil Rights of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare in 19/70, 35 Fed.
Page 138 - The Congress hereby declares that the general welfare and security of the Nation and the health and living standards of its people...
Page 10 - An objection to transportation of students may have validity when the time or distance of travel is so great as to risk either the health of the children or significantly impinge on the educational process.
Page 207 - The voluntary consent of the human subject is absolutely essential. This means that the person involved should have legal capacity to give consent; should be so situated as to be able to exercise free power of choice, without the intervention of any element of force, fraud, deceit, duress, over-reaching, or other ulterior form of constraint or coercion...
Page 138 - ... the realization as soon as feasible of the goal of a decent home and a suitable living environment for every American family...
Page 235 - The Court holds that the imposition and carrying out of the death penalty in these cases constitutes cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments.
Page 38 - While we have in a number of our prior cases pointed out the frequently drastic effect of the "stigma" which may result from defamation by the government in a variety of contexts, this line of cases does not establish the proposition that reputation alone, apart from some more tangible interests such as employment, is either "liberty" or "property" by itself sufficient to invoke the procedural protection of the Due Process Clause.
Page 264 - Punishments are cruel when they involve torture or a lingering death ; but the punishment of death is not cruel, within the meaning of that word as used in the Constitution. It implies there something inhuman and barbarous, something more than the mere extinguishment of life.