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AP U.S. Government 2.2 Civil Rights and Liberties. Classifications based on race receive what?

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Thank you Way sneaks and here's your shmoop du jour

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Brought to you by scrutiny Hyper critical look at nuts

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and bolts All right Classifications based on race received what

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And hear the potential answers No All right let's get

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this classifications Pizza party started with a little recap of

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the fourteenth amendment one slavery was abolished in the thirteenth

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amendment Congress wanted a way to ensure that newly freed

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slaves would have equal protection under the laws which basically

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meant the federal government could watch state governments like a

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hawk to ensure they weren't swooping in on people's rights

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even though the fourteenth amendment made it unconstitutional to deny

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any person unfair treatment Under the law the supreme court

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has used a tiered approach Teo its application's Well think

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of it like a wedding cake at the top We

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have individuals whose cases received the highest level of scrutiny

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and an intermediate level like these people and in the

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lowest level of scrutiny Like these people we know it's

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ironic That court uses different categories of equal protection but

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that's just the way the justices are like So where

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do classifications based on race fall into just delicious puzzle

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Well the fourteenth amendment's historical intention was to protect newly

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freed slaves from discrimination under the law That means any

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law using racial classifications is subject to strict scrutiny by

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the courts In other words the law better have a

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good reason for going in the face of the fourteenth

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amendment And if we look at our choices that make

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us see the right answer Some of the most famous

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supreme court cases like brown v board of education I

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have dealt with this top tier of discrimination to remembering

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that racial classifications fall in the top tier of scrutiny 00:01:52.741 --> [endTime] Should be a piece of cake

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