Created Equal
38745As you watch and listen, take notes about the following:
1. What does Akhil Amar believe the 14th Amendment does for the U.S?
2. What was the goal of the 14th Amendment when it was first established?
3. What did the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857) state? How was the 14th Amendment used as a way to address this decision?
4. With respect to marriage equality, what did California’s Proposition 8 do? To what extent do you agree or disagree that the majority should not have the ability to make decisions about another group’s right simply because there are more of them?
5. On what did the U.S. Supreme Court base its ruling in the case of Loving v. Virginia (1967)?
6. To what extent does the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment mean that all people must be equal with all others? Can you list a few examples? What types of inequality will the 14th Amendment allow? Why?
7. Which group of citizens’ right to vote was protected by each of the following:
14th Amendment?
15th Amendment?
19th Amendment?
26th Amendment?
8. What laws and practices prohibited the rights of African Americans for years after the 14th Amendment was first passed? What event(s) fulfilled the promise of those rights?
9. What is affirmative action? When did it begin? What was its purpose? What is the reason for affirmative action? Why was it established and how does it protect the rights of the minority? What are some potential unintended consequences?
10. Why did the New Haven firefighters sue?
11. What part of the 14th Amendment was used in the court case to rule the law banning children of illegal immigrants from attending public school unconstitutional?
12. Where does the right to privacy begin and end?
13. In what case did the U.S. Supreme Court legalize the practice of performing abortions? How did they explain their decision? On what fundamental freedom is the right to choose to legally have an abortion based?
14. What are the two ways to decide liberty identified in the film?
15. What does economic liberty mean? Why is it important? Where in the 14th Amendment is economic liberty spelled out? How were the monks of St. Joseph’s violating a state law? Why was this a constitutional issue?
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