The term "Nuremberg Laws" refers to anti-Jewish legislation adopted at the Nazi Party Convention, where the Reichstag were guests, in Nuremberg on September 15, 1935. Two swiftly elaborated acts brought about the final legal and social separation of Jews and non-Jews in Germany. The Reich Citizenship Law deprived Jews of electoral rights and made them into second-class citizens. The immediate result was the dismissal of all Jewish civil servants, employees, and workers who still held their jobs. The Citizenship Law provided the legal basis for 13 subsequent administrative orders. 
 
 The second law endorsed by the Reichstag that day was the Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honour. This statute forbade Jews to marry nationals of German or kindred blood. In the wake of this law, a complicated classification system was enacted, defining various degrees of Jewishness according to how many grandparents were Jews, i.e., members of the Jewish community: "full Jew," "considered Jewish," etc. Each degree had its own specified privileges, rights, and disabilities. Aryans and German blood were never defined. 
 
 The law is a clear expression of Nazi racial ideology, and also clearly illustrates the pseudo-science behind it. Individual Jews were defined by their lineage (an objective biological criterion), but the root of their lineage (their grandparents' identity as Jews) was determined by "membership in the Jewish religious community," a most subjective and non-scientific criterion.