In 1996, Californians approved Proposition 209 with a 55% to 45% vote . Proposition 209 makes it illegal to discriminate on the basis of race and gender thus making California the first state to end affirmative action in public institutions. Racial and gender inequality is an issue that plagues Ame...

"The state shall not discriminate, or grant preferential treatment to any individual or group on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin in the operation of public employment, public education, or public contracting." The previous statement is the unedited text of the ...

The Controversy of Affirmative Action Is affirmative action the right and fair way of dealing with differences in opportunity and education in a society's population? Everyone has their own opinion of affirmative action and the results it manifests. One who does believe affirmative action is a fair...

Many people have different views on the Death Penalty. Personally, I believe in the Death Penalty. I feel that if someone has the ability to kill someone and is convicted of first-degree murder than we as a society have the right to decide whether the convicted should live or die. Here in Californi...

Immigration & Health Care As many as 830,000 non-citizen immigrants are residents of California. Nearly one in five non-citizens, under the age of 65 in California, is covered by Medi-Cal. Medi-Cal is an essential source of healthcare insurance for millions of low-income, elderly, and ...

On September 25, 1789, Congress transmitted to the state legislatures twelve proposed amendments, two of which, having to do with Congressional representation and Congressional pay, were not adopted. The remaining ten amendments became the Bill of Rights(CF). The primary purpose of the Bill of Righ...

In his 2004 text titled What's the Matter with Kansas? How Conservatives Won the Hearts of America, Thomas Frank (106) argues that if one takes Kansas as an exemplar of voting patterns in the United States, it is becoming increasingly clear that "working-class heroes are even more Republic...