affirmative action

The United States Constitution states that every person has the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. However, in the early years of the nation, minorities and women were put down and persecuted. Affirmative action is the nation’s attempt to redress its long history of racial and sexual discrimination. Affirmative action is used in many different aspects of life. Affirmative action is a disputed argument because if you take away from someone to help another, where is the justification in that?
Affirmative action was born out of the civil rights movement thirty years ago. Affirmative action calls for minorities and women to be given special consideration in employment, education and contracting decisions. There is a great deal of politics involved in affirmative action laws. Republicans are usually for the end of affirmative action, while democrats are in favor in keeping it. The laws have caused disputes in the nation’s capital and thus lead to further division...