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desegregation class actions if democratic processes are to be restored to them. Toward this end, San Diego Groundswell constituents offer their experience to others similarly determined to remain in their school districts, and assert their constitutional rights in those cases. All this is part of propelling solutions to Justice Scalia's query in a case which ended court jurisdiction over student assignments in a Georgia school district, as to how jurisdiction over many other districts in the country could be ended:
The answer to this query by the Groundswell Intervenors is that the people constituents of those boards must gain entry into and present their constitutional rights in these lawsuits, as did the people represented by Lawyer Jackson. In combination with Busing — Opposed, Liberate Public Schools advances the means by which the people can restore democratic processes where desegregation class actions are still pending at this writing forty-six years after Brown v. Board of Education. These means rest upon a separation of powers foundation, emanating from a historic enactment in 1780 in the Massachusetts Constitution, called by Thomas James Norton in The Constitution of the United States: Its Sources and Its Application (p.x), a classic statement of the American theory of the division of governmental powers:
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Brown I | Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 347 U.S. 483 (1954) Topeka, Kansas |
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Freeman v. Pitts, 112 S.Ct. 1430 (1992) DeKalb County School System (DCSS), DeKalb County, Georgia> Enstrom: filed amici curiae brief |
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