CL 2/18

1. The genre in setting to plessy vs. ferguson is upperclass folk that belong in a courtroom setting. Only people that comprehend different legislation pertaining to the case would be able to successfully progress the overturning of a case so significant.

The threshold level of members in the case are civilized white people in the court room arguing against each other either for the constitution and its 13th and 14th amendments or against the constitution.

Participary mechanisms include the lawyers whom either defend or are there to ratify the constitution. nothing can be done unless the extra measure is taken by these people in order to evolve to a more practical society.

2. Although there were specific cases involving separate but equal clauses, i believe they chose Homer Plessy as a prime target because the railroads were the main way of traveling publicly. It would of made perfect for a benchmark case because it would effect every state that the railroad passes through.

3. The activist discourse, which were the ones fighting for a ratification to the amendments of the constitution (lawyer for Plessy’s side), slowly chiseled away that shell of ignorance that municipal legislatures had against African Americans. This gave enlightened thinking to the people and politicians to endorse equality that would eventually lead to bigger benchmark cases like Roe v. Wade or Brown v. Board of Education during the civil rights era.