Justice John Harlan’s dissent to the court’s decision in Plessy v. Ferguson was based on what premise?

Justice John Marshall Harlan argued that the Constitution does not recognize or favor racial categories and is “color-blind.” He believed the segregation law therefore conflicted with the Constitution, even though the majority upheld it under the “separate but equal” doctrine. The correct choice is that the Constitution is “color-blind.”

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