Set Aside Programs

In 1964, President Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act, declaring that "You do not take a person who, for years, has been hobbled by chains and liberate him, bring him up to the starting line of a race, and then say, 'You are free to compete...' and still justly believe that you have been completely fair." President Johnson was referring to compensatory justice, the idea that people who have been treated unjustly deserve to be …

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