In the opinion, Warren conceded that the Fourteenth Amendment was not originally intended to prohibit school segregation. In the
1860s public schools did not exist throughout the country,and many children received little or no education. However, Warren wrote, by the middle of the twentieth century, public education had become an essential part of each child's personal, civic, and professional development. The court declared that under the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment,segregated public schools are inherently unequal and therefore forbidden by the Constitution. Use the description of Brown v Board of Education to answer the question.
1:Which of the following reasons does Chief Justice Earl Warren cite for the changing interpretation of the Equal Protection Clause?
A:Changes in the role of court in decided cases.
B:Changes in societal beliefs about diversity.
C:Changes in the state legislatures.
D:Changes in the role of public education.***
The excerpt above expresses how the role of public education in the United States has drastically changed over the course of 100 years. During the middle of the 1800's, school was seen as a privilege to attend, not a guarantee. However, this idea changed significantly over the course of the next 100 years. By the time of the middle of the 1900's came around, attending school was seen as a normal thing to do.
The disaster immediately strained relations between Germany and the neutral United States, fueled anti-German sentiment and set off a chain of events that eventually led to the United States entering World War I. Germany broke naval rules.
