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Thea writting review 3

Tham khảo tài liệu 'thea writting review 3', ngoại ngữ, anh ngữ phổ thông phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | THEA PRACTICE EXAM 2 Section 1 Reading Questions 1-6 are based on the following passage. The following is taken from a case that came before the Supreme Court in 1954 347 US 483 1954 Brown v. Board of Education. 1 These cases come to us from the States of Kansas South Carolina Virginia and Delaware. Argu- ment was heard in the 1952 Term and reargument was heard this Term on certain questions propounded by the Court. 2 Reargument was largely devoted to the circumstances surrounding the adoption of the 14th Amendment in 1868. It covered exhaustively consideration of the Amendment in Congress ratification by the states then existing practices in racial segregation and the views of proponents and opponents of the Amendment. These sources and our own investigation convince us that although these sources cast some light it is not enough to resolve the problem with which we are faced. At best they are inconclusive. The most avid proponents of the post-War Amendments undoubtedly intended them to remove all legal distinctions among all persons born or naturalized in the United States. Their opponents just as certainly were antagonistic to both the letter and the spirit of the Amendments and wished them to have the most limited effect. What others in Congress and the state legislatures had in mind cannot be determined with any degree of certainty. 3 An additional reason for the inconclusive nature of the Amendment s history with respect to segregated schools is the status of public education at that time. In the South the movement toward free common schools supported by general taxation had not yet taken hold. . . . Even in the North the conditions of public education did not approximate those existing today. The curriculum was usually rudimentary ungraded schools were common in rural areas compulsory school attendance was virtually unknown. As a consequence it is not surprising that there should be so little in the history of the 14th Amendment relating to its intended .