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  • Equal Treatment

    Equal treatment in Law Enforcement Main Entry: Law Enforcement in the Legal Dictionary. This section provides, in the context of Law Enforcement, a partial definition of equal treatment. Resources Legal English Vocabulary: Equal Treatment in Spanish Online translation of the English legal term […]

  • Trends of Opinion

    Hierarchical Display of Trends of opinion Politics > Politics and public safetyPolitics > Politics and public safety > Public opinion > Public awareness campaignLaw > Rights and freedoms > Rights of the individual > Freedom of opinionTrade > Consumption > Consumer > Consumer […]

  • Charter Of Economic Rights And Duties Of States

    Charter of Economic Rights and Duties of States in Global Commerce Policy In this regard, charter of economic rights and duties of states is: an initiative launched at UNCTAD III (1972) ostensibly aimed at protecting the economic rights of all countries, but really promoting a change in what […]

  • Charter Of Economic Rights And Duties Of States

    Charter of Economic Rights and Duties of States in Global Commerce Policy In this regard, charter of economic rights and duties of states is: an initiative launched at UNCTAD III (1972) ostensibly aimed at protecting the economic rights of all countries, but really promoting a change in what […]

  • Jim Crow

    Etimology of Jim Crow (You may find Jim Crow at the world legal encyclopedia and the etimology of more terms). black man, 1838, American English, originally the name of a black minstrel character in a popular song-and-dance act by T.D. Rice (1808-1860) that debuted 1828 and attained […]

  • Brown Case

    The celebrated case, Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, in which the Supreme Court declared segregation in the public schools violative of the equal protection clause of the Constitution. There were actually two significant decisions in the case, reported at 347 U.S. 483 (1954) and 349 U.S. […]

  • Bakke Case

    A key case testing the constitutionally permissible scope of affirmative action. The case (Regents of the University of California v. Bakke, 438 U.S. 265 (1978)), seems (there are several opinions, aggregating 150 pages, and none of them may safely be said to be the court’s) to […]

  • Discriminating

    (Distinguishing), adjective contradistinct contrasting diacritical differentiating differentiative differing discriminate distinctive inconsistent individualizing selective separative As…

  • Religious Sect

    Hierarchical Display of Religious sect Social Questions > Culture and religion > Religion Meaning of Religious sect Overview and more information about Religious sect For a more comprehensive understanding of Religious sect, see in the general part of the online platform.[rtbs […]

  • Ethnic Group

    A collective of people sharing an enduring and special sense of identity, which can include language, religion, and racial characteristics, among others. A collective of people sharing an enduring and special sense of identity, which can include language, religion, and racial characteristics, […]

  • Sociocultural Group

    Hierarchical Display of Sociocultural group European Union > European construction > EU relations > European Union > European construction > EU relations > Culture > Cultural differenceEuropean Union > European construction > EU relations > Political ideology > CommunalismEuropean […]

  • Race

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Race Meaning of Race An ethnic stock . A division of mankind having in common certain distinguishing physical peculiarities as a class . Any group of people or any grouping of people having or assumed to […]

  • Race

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Race Meaning of Race An ethnic stock . A division of mankind having in common certain distinguishing physical peculiarities as a class . Any group of people or any grouping of people having or assumed to […]

  • Segregation

    The unconstitutional policy and practise of separating people because of their race, color, religion or national origin.

  • Back Pay Order

    A judicial or administrative order that a worker is to be paid wages theretofore withheld from him. The most common back pay order is that issued by the NLRB when an employee has been discharged or denied promotion in violation of a labor law, e.g., for helping to unionize a business, but such […]