The Fourteenth Amendment: From Political Principle to Judicial Doctrine

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Harvard University Press, 2009年6月1日 - 253 頁
In 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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The Impasse in Fourteenth Amendment Scholarship
1
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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William E. Nelson is Professor of Law and History, New York University.

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