Congress decreed that new election laws could not take effect until the state or locality proved that they would not deprive minorities of voting power.

Outright exclusion of minorities from jury service has been a Federal crime for over a century, condemned for depriving racial minorities of an impartial trial.

Since April 1, 1991, the Justice Department has objected to 148 redistricting plans as designed to deprive minorities of their rights.

And they have deprived minorities of their fair share of the count.

Although federalism commands a narrow majority on the Supreme Court, advocates like Mr. Sutton are taking the law in a disturbing direction, depriving minorities, women and the disabled of important rights.

These include decisions aimed at depriving racial minorities of the vote.

Furthermore, beginning in 1927 with the publication of the relevant Presidential Decree, the Greek government implemented a policy depriving Muslim Chams and other minorities of their Greek citizenship if they would leave Greece.

Starr's argument was challenged in and out of court by two members of his own faculty who argued the court had an obligation to secure both equality and religious freedom, and majorities cannot assume to have the power to deprive minorities of fundamental rights.

It was in this building during the party congress of 1935, that the Nuremberg laws were adapted which deprived German Jews and other minorities of their citizenship.