Answer: French 18th-century and 19th-century constitutions as well US constitution (18th century) are believed that constitute the basis and fundament of today´s modern democracies but in their original version they were made for white man. So one can say that "we Americans" is a hypocritical statement because excluded many people. The same can be said about the French constitution (1st French republic) that contradicts its preamble (the test speaks of "les droits universells de l´homme et du citoyen").
Explanation: what was said above perfectly demonstrates that 18th-century intellectual revolution was a revolution of white European man from which many were excluded (indians, women, poor).
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Racial policies were mostly those that dealt with the issue of slavery at first and later with the issue of civil rights. Court's decision to have the anti-slavery acts and to later have the civil war acts impacted African-Americans a lot. A case when it comes to ethnicity is for example the court's decision that affirmative action can often be treated as positive racism and that such laws and policies have to pass strict scrutiny and be analyzed to prevent discrimination. Religious groups often had court problems because of issues regarding homosexuality or abortions in which it was established that religious groups have all the freedom to believe what they want but same-sex marriages and abortions can be provided to all people regardless of religion.
