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affirmative action
programs designed to ensure that women, minorities, and other traditionally disadvantaged groups have full and equal opportunities in employment, education, and other areas of life.
De facto discrimination
discrimination on the basis of race, sex, religion, ethnicity, and the like that results from social, economic, and cultural biases and conditions.
De jure discrimination
discrimination on the basis of race, sex, religion, ethnicity, and the like that results from a law.
equal-protection clause
A clause of the Fourteenth Amendment that forbids any state to deny equal protection of the laws to any individual within its jurisdiction.
Equal rights(civil rights)
the right of every person to equal protection under the laws and equal access to society’s opportunities and public facilities.
reasonable-basis test
a test applied by courts to laws that treat individuals unequally. Such a law may be deemed constitutional if its purpose is held to be “reasonably” related to a legitimate government interest.
Strict-scrutiny test
a test applied by courts to laws that attempt a racial or an ethnic classification. In effect, the strict-scrutiny test eliminates race or ethnicity as legal classification when it places minority-group members at a disadvantage.
Suspect classifications
legal classifications, such as race and national origin, that have invidious discrimination as their purpose and therefore are unconstitutional.
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