The Fourteenth Amendment: From Political Principle to Judicial Doctrine
An important and timely study...Nelson successfully demonstrates the substance and consistency of pre-Lochner Fourteenth Amendment jurisprudence. This is a significant achievement. (Louis S. GerteisAmerican Journal of Legal History)Improves our understanding of how the Fourteenth Amendment was able to be read so expansively...Adds enormously to our constitutional history. (Frank J. MacchiarolaPolitical Science Quarterly)