*Regents+of+the+University+of+California+v.+Bakke

Savannah Camp & Otis Skipper
 * __//Regents of the University of California vs. Bakke//__ **

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PUT SPACE BETWEEN SECTIONS 2.In 1973 Allan Bakke, a 35 year HYPHEN old white man, applied to the University of California Medical School at Davis. Because of the school's affirmative action program, which held 16 spots for minority's MINORITIES in each entering class, he was refused admission. He applied again the next year and was turned down yet again. Bakke was more qualified than the accepted applicants to any of the minority spots. IN WHAT WAYS? Bakke concluded that he was being discriminated against because he was not a minority. He contended this conclusion in California courts and then the Supreme Court. 4.5/5

3. The court had to answer the question of whether or not race should play a part in school admissions. The fourteenth amendment guarantees equal protection under the law, and that "n o State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens." Bakke argued that he was denied admission into the college due to the fact that he was not a minority, and that the special admissions program cost him his admission. The supreme court had to decide whether or not the special programs committee violated Bakke's equal representation under the law and whether or not his refusal of admission was unconstitutional. REVERSE DISCRIMINATION 5/5

4.There were two votes. The first vote was 5 for Bakke, 4 against, to decide weather SPELL or not he should be admitted to the school. WHICH SAID WHAT? The second vote was also 5-4, however BUT this vote was to decide if the affirmative action programS IN GENERAL WERE constitutionally permissable. The court decided that the University of California should be forced to admit Bakke and that their affirmative action program was unconstitutional. While the court objected to the holding of spots for minority's it did say that it was constitutionally permissible to use race as an admission quality as long as one did not hold spots for people solely by race. 4.5/5

5. This court case was not like many other court cases. It did not have simply one ruling that decided the case as wright or wrong. It was handled in two different rulings. This left a significance for each ruling. The first ruling, that Bakke should be admitted to the University, signified that admittance based upon disadvantages could be unconstitutional. It was extremely significant to Bakke, and also showed other universities that their programs may have not been constitutional. While the first showed that admittance upon disadvantages could be unconstitutional, the second ruling said otherwise. The second ruling said that colleges could determine admittance on disadvantages, but not on that alone. It said that the program at the University of California was unconstitutional, but also that there could be programs like it that weren't. This still gave those with disadvantages help in applying to colllege, but did not deny those like Bakke admission.

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2/2 7.Allan Bakke. Retrieved on 11/17/09 from []

//Regents of the university of california v. bakke (no. 7811)//. Department of Law, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. Retrieved from http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/historics/USSC_CR_0438_0265_ZS.html

U.S. Constitution: Fourteenth Amendment. //Findlaw//. Retrieved (2009, November 17) from http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/data/constitution/amendment14/

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