Under the existing native statute the only African natives who have the right to be full citizens are those who have achieved a certain level of education.
The most important of these measures is the repeal of the native statute, a law which was of considerable usefulness and was the instrument of a policy inspired by the highest sense of missionary responsibility," he said.
The Minister declared that repeal of the native statute "will make it clearly understood that the Portuguese people are subject to a political law which is the same for everyone, without distinction of race, religion or culture.
The law had shielded myriad practices from state and local statutes -- Native Americans using ritual peyote, young Catholics taking Communion wine, Orthodox Jews objecting to autopsies, Jehovah's Witnesses refusing to take loyalty oaths for state jobs, Islamic inmates following dietary laws dictated by their faith, even the Amish refusing to put traffic reflectors on their buggies.
The Pequots retained lobbyists, reached out to charity groups that utilized the "Las Vegas night" statute, and brought in Native American Rights Fund executive director John Echohawk to defeat Weicker's proposed bill.
Nor can employers inquire about characteristics protected under antidiscrimination statutes, including age, race, national origin, native language, marital status, disabilities and, in some states or cities, sexual orientation.
Congress threw out most federal restrictions on Native drinking in 1953, acknowledging the original 19th century statutes were "discriminatory".
A California statute specifically permitted segregation of Asian American and Native American children, and Warren and state legislators mounted a successful effort to repeal the law.
The Ohio native faced a maximum of 14 years in prison, and state statute prescribed a minimum of two years for his convictions.
In Smith, we rejected a challenge to an Oregon statute that denied unemployment benefits to drug users, including Native Americans engaged in the sacramental use of peyote.
The statutes of the University of Padua prevented him, as a native Paduan, from obtaining the first ordinary chair in natural philosophy.
