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We the People: The Fourteenth Amendment and the Supreme Court

By Michael J. Perry

Book information

Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
Year
1999
ISBN
019512362X, 9780195123623, 0195151259, 9780195151251
LCC
KF4558 14th .P47 1999
Open Library ID
OL386150M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
18 MB (18884676 bytes)
Pages
286\286
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-08-31 04:54:40

Description

Several of the most divisive moral conflicts that have beset Americans in the period since World War II have been transmuted into constitutional conflicts and resolved as such. In his new book, eminent legal scholar Michael Perry evaluates the grave charge that the modern Supreme Court has engineered a "judicial usurpation of politics." In particular, Perry inquires which of several major Fourteenth Amendment conflicts--over race segregation, race-based affirmative action, sex-based discrimination, homosexuality, abortion, and physician-assisted suicide--have been resolved as they should have been. He lays the necessary groundwork for his inquiry by addressing questions of both constitutional theory and constitutional history. A clear-eyed examination of some of the perennial controversies in American life, We the People is a major contribution to modern constitutional studies.

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