Equal Protection or Due Process Paper

During the early and mid-1980’s, many states raised their drinking age to 21 in response to federal prompting and as a means of promoting traffic safety. To further address public health and safety concerns, many states initiated sobriety checkpoints and introduced random drug testing for public employees and high school students.Write a 800- to 1,050-word paper that discusses the following: • How would you analyze the effect of these policies? • What approach might you take, and what types of information might you seek and use? • Suppose your analysis discerned no policy affect, how do you think different political groups would react? • What due process and equal protection issues and standards do these public safety strategies raise? • Apply the Supreme Court’s three-tiered test to determine if equal protection or due process has been violated. • Explain how managerial, political, and legal perspectives variously affect this policy change, implementation, and evaluation.