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Jooney Posted 14 years ago
Grammar
Meaning of the sentence
Hi,
I'd like to apologize for posting many questions in just one day. But this forum is like a last resort to me in terms of finding solutions to my questions. I'd appreciate your understanding.
Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. has been particularly skeptical of government programs that take account of race. “Racial balancing is not transformed from ‘patently unconstitutional’ to a compelling state interest simply by relabeling it ‘racial diversity,’ ” he wrote in a 2007 decision limiting the use of race to achieve integration in public school districts.
The bold part is basically saying:
Racial balancing is not transformed from A to B by C.
By means of doing C, you can't transform A into B.
I think I can understand what "A" and "C" mean, but it is not clear to me what "B" means.
Racial balancing(=the use of race in admission decisions) is clearly unconstitutional and it can't go from being unconstitutional to "C" by putting a "racial diversity" label on it. What does "C" mean?
I'd appreciate your help.
I'd like to apologize for posting many questions in just one day. But this forum is like a last resort to me in terms of finding solutions to my questions. I'd appreciate your understanding.
Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. has been particularly skeptical of government programs that take account of race. “Racial balancing is not transformed from ‘patently unconstitutional’ to a compelling state interest simply by relabeling it ‘racial diversity,’ ” he wrote in a 2007 decision limiting the use of race to achieve integration in public school districts.
The bold part is basically saying:
Racial balancing is not transformed from A to B by C.
By means of doing C, you can't transform A into B.
I think I can understand what "A" and "C" mean, but it is not clear to me what "B" means.
Racial balancing(=the use of race in admission decisions) is clearly unconstitutional and it can't go from being unconstitutional to "C" by putting a "racial diversity" label on it. What does "C" mean?
I'd appreciate your help.
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I'm not entirely clear what you are asking. At one point you say that you understand C then a bit later you ask what C means and you seem to have mixed up which is C and which is some other condition. Still I'll attempt to explain what I think you're asking.
- I'm not entirely clear what you are asking.
- At one point you say that you understand C then a bit later you ask what C means and you seem to have mixed up which is C and which is some other condition.
- Still I'll attempt to explain what I think you're asking.
- Just to be sure, here are A, B, and C explicitly spelled out as in your statement " Racial balancing is not transformed from A to B by C.
- " A = 'patently unconstitutional' B = 'compelling state interest' C = relabeling it 'racial diversity' The term "compelling state interest" is a term of art that is used to justify policies that are legally or constitutionally unacceptable but that the government wants to justify anyway.
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I'm not entirely clear what you are asking. At one point you say that you understand C then a bit later you ask what C means and you seem to have mixed up which is C and which is some other condition. Still I'll attempt to explain what I think you're asking.
Just to be sure, here are A, B, and C explicitly spelled out as in your statement "Racial balancing is not transformed from A to
Just to be sure, here are A, B, and C explicitly spelled out as in your statement "Racial balancing is not transformed from A to
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Thank you for the reply, MalRey.
It was B that I wanted to know the meaning of. Sorry for the confusion.
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It was B that I wanted to know the meaning of. Sorry for the confusion.
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jooneyWhat would be considered as a compelling state interest?In practice it's anything some judge decides it is. In theory here is the definition from an onlie legal dictionary:
compelling state interest: a governmental interest (as in educating children or protecting the public) which is so important that it outweighs individual rights.
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