Bakke

What happened to Bakke is known as reverse discrimination. Bakke felt his rejections to be violations of the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th amendment, so he took the University of California Regents to the Superior Court of California. It was ruled that "the admissions program violated his rights under the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th

Amendment.” The clause reads as follows: "...No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor without due process of the law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."

The court ruled that race could not be a fa

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"The Davis special admissions program used an explicit racial classification, Powell noted. Thus, those who deserve advancement may not receive it, due to affirmative action and the associated reverse discrimination. the color of a person's skin or ancestry, that individual is entitled to demonstration that the challenged classification is necessary to promote a substantial state interest. because one is of the Caucasian majority he/she should not have more advantages and likewise because one is of a minority he/she should not be disadvantaged. The school could not meet this requirement, and Bakke was admitted by court order. The final argument for the special admissions program is that advantage should not be associated with race, i. Board the Education of Topeka, Kansas. He did think that affirmative action, when it considered race, was okay. The California Supreme Court held that it was the University's burden to prove that Bakke would not have been admitted if the special program was not in effect. By doing so, the various ethnic groups will be divided and possibly end up competing. Bakke disagreed with the court on this issue and he brought it before the California Supreme Court. The fault in special admissions programs is that they will us e skin color as a more important factor than academic and personal merit.

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