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If anyone doubts that the rule of law is rapidly fading from the American landscape, let him peruse the growing literature on Washington’s recent craze for racial, ethnic, and sexual quotas.

He might begin by mulling the fact, as noted by Harvard’s Nathan Glazer in Affirmative Discrimination (Basic Books, $10.95), that official quotas of any sort go flatly counter to the will of Congress. The sponsors of the Civil Rights Act of ’64 were very plain in saying that racial balances were undesirable, and that “quotas themselves are discriminatory.” Yet various ganglia of the bureaucracy are now relentlessly imposing quotas on businesses, colleges, and other institutions in the flimsy guise of “goals and timetables.”

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If anyone doubts that the rule of law is rapidly fading from the American landscape, let him peruse the growing literature on Washington’s recent craze for racial, ethnic, and sexual quotas.

He might begin by mulling the fact, as noted by Harvard’s Nathan Glazer in Affirmative Discrimination (Basic Books, $10.95), that official quotas of any sort go flatly counter to the will of Congress. The sponsors of the Civil Rights Act of ’64 were very plain in saying that racial balances were undesirable, and that “quotas themselves are discriminatory.” Yet various ganglia of the bureaucracy are now relentlessly imposing quotas on businesses, colleges, and other institutions in the flimsy guise of “goals and timetables.”