Plessyb vs Ferguson
- the supreme court issued a 7-1 decision against Plessy that declared the segregation of the Louisiana train car.
- the court dismissed any claims of them violating the thirteenth amendment.
- they used people within their discourse community to control black Americans.
- their discourse community included the judges, lawyers, and the city of Louisiana.
- they used their discourse community to stop blacks from going to school, voting, and traveling for work.
- this stamped the black race as inferior to the white race
The measure of man
- Appeals to reason – to the nature of the universe have been used throughout history to enshrine existing hierarchies as proper and inevitable
- (without this just graduation could they be subjected, these to those, or all to thee?)
- (from natures chain whatever link you strike, tenth, or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike.)
- the scientific argument has formed a primary a primary line of attack for more than a century.
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