The Fourteenth Amendment: From Political Principle to Judicial Doctrine
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ISBN: 0674316266 / Publisher: Harvard University Press, August 1998
In a remarkably fresh and historically grounded reinterpretation of the American Constitution, Willi...
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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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