1. Made racial discrimination illegal in hotels, motels, restaurants and other places of accommodation.
2. Forbade discrimination in employment on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion or gender.
3. Provided for withholding federal grants for state and local governments and other institutions that practiced racial discrimination
The correct answer is C) An executive order contradicts a bill Congress is debating.
The statement that describes how executive orders can lead to conflict with the legislative branch is "An executive order contradicts a bill Congress is debating."
As part of the system of checks and balances instituted by the founding fathers in the Constitution of the United States, neither branch has more power than the other. However, the leadership and presence of the President of the US, makes him the most important figure of the federal government.
The President is the leader of the nation, the chief diplomat, and the commander-in-chief of the armed forces. He also has the power to veto laws and return them to the US Congress, creates executive orders to change things in the government. And this power has created conflict with the legislative branch in the past.
White Americans tried to justify segregation by using the "separate but equal" clause. They believed that segregation was okay, as long as the facilities that contained segregation were equal.
The "separate but equal" idea got debunked numerous times. An example of where "separate but equal" turned out to be false was the Brown v. Board of Education case. This case started when a young African American girl had to walk over a mile to her black school when there was a white school only a couple blocks away. The Brown v. Board of Education case ended up going all of the way to the Supreme Court, which ruled that "separate but equal" was inherently false and not equal whatsoever.
