The Fourteenth Amendment: From Political Principle to Judicial DoctrineIn a remarkably fresh and historically grounded reinterpretation of the American Constitution, William Nelson argues that the fourteenth amendment was written to affirm the general public's long-standing rhetorical commitment to the principles of equality and individual rights on the one hand, and to the principle of local self-rule on the other. |
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... adopted the amendment in an effort to appreciate the problems they faced and the means by which they hoped to solve them . But I found the puzzles raised by the history of the Fourteenth Amendment intractable . Fortunately , my then col ...
... adopted the amendment in an effort to appreciate the problems they faced and the means by which they hoped to solve them . But I found the puzzles raised by the history of the Fourteenth Amendment intractable . Fortunately , my then col ...
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... adopted the amendment in the 1860s anticipated the distinction between public good and partisan interest that animated the Supreme Court's interpretation of the amendment less than a decade later . With this in mind I began in 1981 to ...
... adopted the amendment in the 1860s anticipated the distinction between public good and partisan interest that animated the Supreme Court's interpretation of the amendment less than a decade later . With this in mind I began in 1981 to ...
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... Adoption of the Amendment 40 IV The Use of Antebellum Rhetoric in the Amendment Debates 64 ཙང 91 V Objections to the Amendment VI The Republican Rebuttal 110 VII The Judicial Elaboration of Doctrine 148 VIII Lochner v . New York and the ...
... Adoption of the Amendment 40 IV The Use of Antebellum Rhetoric in the Amendment Debates 64 ཙང 91 V Objections to the Amendment VI The Republican Rebuttal 110 VII The Judicial Elaboration of Doctrine 148 VIII Lochner v . New York and the ...
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... adoption of the Fourteenth Amend- ment is now at an impasse . The conflicting interpretations , all of them supported by impressive arrays of evidence , have left historians and lawyers wondering whether the Republicans who pushed the ...
... adoption of the Fourteenth Amend- ment is now at an impasse . The conflicting interpretations , all of them supported by impressive arrays of evidence , have left historians and lawyers wondering whether the Republicans who pushed the ...
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... adoption of the amendment which is addressed to lawyers34 is based on a single set of source materials : the debates of Congress as reported in Benjamin B. Kendrick's The Journal of the Joint Com- mittee of Fifteen on Reconstruction35 ...
... adoption of the amendment which is addressed to lawyers34 is based on a single set of source materials : the debates of Congress as reported in Benjamin B. Kendrick's The Journal of the Joint Com- mittee of Fifteen on Reconstruction35 ...
Contents
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Ideas of Liberty and Equality | 13 |
The Drafting and Adoption of the Amendment | 40 |
The Use of Antebellum Rhetoric in | 64 |
Objections to the Amendment | 91 |
The Republican Rebuttal | 110 |
The Judicial Elaboration of Doctrine | 148 |
Lochner v New York and the Transformation | 197 |
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Page 32 - That the Government created by this compact was not made the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to itself...
Page 25 - That government can scarcely be deemed to be free where the rights of property are left solely dependent upon the will of a legislative body, without any restraint. The fundamental maxims of a free government seem to require that the rights of personal liberty and private property should be held sacred.
Page 190 - For, the very idea that one man may be compelled to hold his life, or the means of living, or any material right essential to the enjoyment of life, at the mere will of another, seems to be intolerable in any country where freedom prevails, as being the essence of slavery itself.
Page 169 - It may well be doubted if a man is to hold all that he is accustomed to call his own, all in which he has placed his happiness, and the security of which is essential to that happiness, under the unlimited dominion of others, whether it is not wiser that this power should be exercised by one man than by many. "The theory of our governments, state and national, is opposed to the deposit of unlimited power anywhere.
Page 24 - We feel no hesitation in confining these expressions to those privileges and [immunities which are, in their nature, fundamental ; which belong, of right, to the citizens of all free governments...