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Affirmative Action: Is It Constitutional?

The constitutionality of affirmative action programs that provide special benefits to members of groups subjected to past discrimination divide the nation and the Supreme Court. Voters in states have adopted propositions that forbid universities and other state agencies to take race and gender into account.



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