Need an argumentative essay on Arguing the Constitution: Questions of Equality. Needs to be 2 pages. Please no plagiarism.As the discussion stresses a law was passed in 1890 in Louisiana that stopped

Need an argumentative essay on Arguing the Constitution: Questions of Equality. Needs to be 2 pages. Please no plagiarism.

As the discussion stresses a law was passed in 1890 in Louisiana that stopped blacks from using the same accommodations on railroads as whites, even the cars had to be separate. A group of concerned people in New Orleans formed an association to repeal the law.

This paper declares that Homer Plessy agreed to challenge the law. He was of one-eight African American descent and seven-eights Caucasian descent. When he boarded the train and sat in the white section he was asked to move to the black section. He refused and they arrested him. He objected that the Louisiana law was in violation of the constitution but they refused to release him. After conviction he had to pay a $25 fine. When Plessy’s case went to the U.S. Supreme Court, his lawyers, Albion Tourge’e and Samuel F. Philips constructed their case on the Thirteenth Amendment which prohibits slavery and the Fourteenth Amendment, which “prohibits the states from abridging the ‘”privileges and immunities” of United States citizens, or denying those citizens due process or equal protection of the law”. They argued that the law in question implied that blacks were inferior. The Supreme Court upheld the Louisiana law. One judge abstained and Justice John Marshall Harlan voiced his descent. Most of judges said that Louisiana wasn’t in violation of the Thirteenth Amendment. The majority of the judges disagreed that the Louisiana statute encouraged inferiority of African Americans and stated that it upheld “social policy”.