USA HISTORY

THE 1970S 1969 1979

SUPREME COURT CASE ROE V WADE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Said that affirmative action programs are constitutional, but use of racial quotas is not. Race can be one of the factors in deciding if someone is admitted to a college, but it cannot be the only factor.
A
US v. Nixon
B
Regents of University of California v. Bakke
C
Hazelwood v. Kuhlmeier
D
Texas v. Johnson
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Bakke (1978), the Supreme Court ruled that a university’s use of racial “quotas” in its admissions process was unconstitutional, but a school’s use of “affirmative action” to accept more minority applicants was constitutional in some circumstances.

Detailed explanation-2: -Regents of the University of California v. Bakke is a 1978 Supreme Court case which held that a university’s admissions criteria which used race as a definite and exclusive basis for an admission decision violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Detailed explanation-3: -Bakke decision, formally Regents of the University of California v. Bakke, ruling in which, on June 28, 1978, the U.S. Supreme Court declared affirmative action constitutional but invalidated the use of racial quotas.

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