he United States Supreme Court reviewed state-mandated racial segregation in public schools. The Court stated that the separate schools “involved have been equalized, or are being equalized, with respect to buildings, curricula, qualifications and salaries of teachers, and other ‘tangible’ factors. Our decision, therefore, cannot turn on merely a comparison of these tangible factors [among the] schools involved in each of the cases. We must look instead to the effect of segregation itself on public education.”Which of the following rules or clauses did the Supreme Court use to address the issue of racial segregation in public schools?
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he United States Supreme Court reviewed state-mandated racial segregation in public schools. The Court stated that the separate schools “involved have been equalized, or are being equalized, with respect to buildings, curricula, qualifications and salaries of teachers, and other ‘tangible’ factors. Our decision, therefore, cannot turn on merely a comparison of these tangible factors [among the] schools involved in each of the cases. We must look instead to the effect of segregation itself on public education.”Which of the following rules or clauses did the Supreme Court use to address the issue of racial segregation in public schools?
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The Supreme Court used the "Equal Protection Clause" of the Fourteenth Amendment to address the issue of racial segregation in public schools. This clause prohibits states from denying any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. In the context of the case, the Court ruled that state-mandated segregation, even if the schools were equal in tangible factors, was inherently unequal and thus violated the Equal Protection Clause. This landmark decision is known as Brown v. Board of Education.
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