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Essay / The Case of the Heart of Atlanta V. United States - 1577
One in particular was where the hotel defended the Constitution and when the framers wrote it they made it written in a time that was acceptable to them and now that we are 200 years later we still haven't changed some of the terminology or at least updated the meaning of these terms. Another compelling argument was when the Solicitor General took note of the Declaration of Independence and the fact that all men are created equal, but we failed in that attempt and Title II of the Civil Rights Act was to help rectify this situation. One of the least convincing elements was the hotel's claim that the law directly violated key amendments to our Constitution. To say that Title II violated the Thirteenth Amendment when that specific amendment was written during the abolition of slavery and in any form was an unnecessary argument. The amendment was written around the time the Emancipation Proclamation was being written and this amendment was intended to solidify that document. Additionally, using the Commerce Clause as a basis for bringing action was unfair and