Second Founding - An Introduction to the Fourteenth Amendment

This comprehensive introduction is for law students, undergraduates, academics, and general readers interested in the US constitution's most consequential amendment. The book carefully examines the amendment's three key provisions in its first section and sheds light on how the modern Supreme Court might resurrect its original meaning.

List of contents

Introduction; Part I. Antebellum Law: 1. Due process of law; 2. Protection of the laws; 3. The privileges and immunities of citizenship; Part II. From Abridgment to War and Ratification: 4. abridgement of rights before and after the civil war; 5. The fourteenth amendment; 6. Privileges, immunities, and incorporation; Part III. The Modern Era: 7. The past and future of the fourteenth amendment; Endnotes.

About the author

Ilan Wurman is an Associate Professor of Law at the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law at Arizona State University, where he teaches constitutional law. He is the author of A Debt Against the Living: An Introduction to Originalism (Cambridge 2017), and publishes on administrative law and constitutional law in the nation's top law journals.

Summary

This comprehensive introduction is for law students, undergraduates, academics, and general readers interested in the US constitution's most consequential amendment. The book carefully examines the amendment's three key provisions in its first section and sheds light on how the modern Supreme Court might resurrect its original meaning.

Additional text

'This diligent, comprehensive study of the Fourteenth Amendment, its framers, and its foes raises the bar for the next generation of originalists, nonoriginalists, and those who 'play in the joints.'' Shaakirrah R. Sanders, University of Idaho College of Law

Product details

• Authors: Ilan Wurman
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2020
• EAN: 9781108843157
• ISBN: 978-1-108-84315-7
• No. of pages: 170
• Subjects: Guides > Law, job, finance > Family law; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), POLITICAL SCIENCE / Constitutions, LAW / Legal History, LAW / Constitutional, Legal History, History of the Americas, Constitution: government & the state, Constitution: government and the state, Constitutional & administrative law, Constitutional and administrative law: general