Talk:Virginia Women's Institute for Leadership

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[edit] SCOTUS review

The Act of Congress referred to, the 1972 Amendment to the Civil Rights Act, contains a provision (under the heading of Title IX, Section 1681.4) that specifically exempts military colleges from its other provisions with regard to gender; that is, all Federal service Academies and Senior Military Colleges (of which VMI is one) were not required to enroll females (ref. http://www.maec.org/annotate.html). The Academies became intergrated by 1975; 1997 Supreme Court case (maj. opinion written by Ginsburg) struct down only one portion of the 1972 Act, the provision exempting military colleges, in a newly-invented tool of judicial review that did not previously exist; that is, if an Act is found unconstitutional, it is null and void in its entirety; judges may not amend or abridge law in any fashion, only evaluate its constitutional legality. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.254.0.10 (talk • contribs) 21:05, 17 July 2006