Diversity and Discrimination in American Society

    A.  The Equal Protection Clause

        1.  Due Process

        2.  Reasonable Classification

        3.  Rational Basis Test

        4.  Strict Scrutiny Test

    B.  Segregation in America

        1.  Separate but Equal Doctrine

        2.  Brown vs. Topeka Board of Education

        3.  De Jure and De Facto Segregation

I.  Federal Civil Rights Laws

    A.  Civil Rights Acts

        1.  Civil Rights Act of 1964

        2.  Civil Rights Act of 1968

II.  American Citizenship

   A.  Question of Citizenship

        1.  14th amendment-

    B.  Citizenship by Birth

        1.  Jus Soli-

        2.  Jus Sanguinas

    C.  Citizenship by Naturalization

        1.  Individual Naturalization

        2.  Collective Naturalization

    D.  Loss of Citizenship

        1.  expatriation

        2.  denaturalized

    E.  A Nation of Immigrants

        1.  Regulation of Immigration

        2.  Present Immigration Policies

        3.  Deportation

    F.  Undocumented Aliens

        1.  Illegal immigration-

        2.  amnesty and punishment-

        3.  1996 law-

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