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5 pages in length. The writer summarizes three articles: Ronald Dworkin's 'Is affirmative action doomed?,' Mills' 'Of the limits to the authority of society over the individual,' and John Rawls' 'A theory of justice.' No additional sources cited.
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issues of the Fourteenth Amendment. The author brings to light the concern that many people -- both black and white -- harbor with regard to racial prejudice and privilege,
querying if granting special treatment to African-Americans is not just a means by which to impart reverse discrimination upon the Caucasian race. What Dworkin further addresses is the climate
that affirmative action has created by pitting blacks and whites against one another in what has come to be an all-out battle of ethnic predominance. Dworkin speaks of cases that
have come before various high courts where circumstances of the trial have been adjusted and modified in order to accommodate the seemingly subordinate black race, leaving the white race to
fend for itself without any supplemental legal allocation. The author further addresses the fairness factor in relation to 2 affirmative action, questioning not only the legality and constitutionality of
it, but also the basic aspect of objectivity. "The equal protection clause does not, of course, protect citizens from all legal distinctions or classifications that work to their disadvantage...The
equal protection clause is violated not whenever some group has lost an important decision on the merits of the case or through politics, but when its loss results from its
special vulnerability to prejudice or hostility or stereotype..." (Dworkin 56). II. MILLS Mills poses the question that is of interest to each and every person who inhabits the planet
Earth: where is the line drawn between social authority and that which is left up to the individual? In his approach, Mills addresses the various indications of when society
has begun to overstep its defined boundaries to the detriment of the individual, clearly asserting the fact that the need exists for an even more determinant of limitations when it
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