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American Political Science Review, September, 1993 by Downs, Donald A.
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The Civil Rights Act of 1964 and related legal pronouncements enacted a basic principle into public law which enjoyed wide public support then and now: that it is wrong and illegal to engage in first order discrimination" in certain contexts important to our public and professional lives.
First order discrimination is discrimination against individuals "on the grounds that they are inferior or different" simply because of their race or gender (Rosenfeld, p. 4). Such discrimination violates what Rosenfeld calls the "postulate of equality," which holds that ...
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