There is a category of institutions in respect of which the distinction between group-based individual injustices and injustices at the institutional level collapses, namely, institutions that have as a defining purpose to redress large-scale distributive injustices in the wider society, i.e. governments.
If the purpose of affirmative action is to redress past wrongs, then it requires both the minority and the majority to do the cultural work necessary to create what Martin Luther King Jr. called the "beloved community" of an integrated nation.
It also invites the thought that the aim or purpose of tort law is to redress those wrongs.
In United States v. Cruikshank (1875), the Supreme Court held that "the right of the people peaceably to assemble for the purpose of petitioning Congress for a redress of grievances, or for anything else connected with the powers or duties of the National Government, is an attribute of national citizenship, and, as such, under protection of, and guaranteed by, the United States.
The purpose of these programmes is to redress inequities from the past, avoiding in particular geographical imbalances [ 7], especially in rural or poor areas.
First, there is little standardisation of the procedures for analysing complaints (eg, training) or the purpose of data collection (ie, for redressing individual complaints or system-wide issues).
The primary purpose of a legal system is to redress wrongs.
Thankfully, there are also stories of redress in our past.
The lack of redress is a significant flaw.
Does the video itself constitute a form of redress?
