Title: The Fourteenth Amendment :
Authors: Nelson, William E.
Date: 1988
Publisher: Harvard University Press,
Physical description: ix, 253 pages ; 25 cm
Language: English
LC classification: K
Contents: The impasse in Fourteenth Amendment scholarship -- Ideas of liberty and equality in antebellum America -- The drafting and adoption of the amendment -- The use of antebellum rhetoric in the amendment debates -- Objections to the amendment -- The Republican rebuttal -- The judicial elaboration of doctrine -- Lochner v. New York and the transformation of the amendment.
Notes: Includes index.
Subject headings (LCSH): Civil rights--United States--History.; Constitutional amendments--United States--History.; Constitutional amendments--United States.; Equality before the law--United States--History.; United States. Constitution. 14th Amendment--History.