Original Meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment
Subtitle: Its Letter and Spirit
Publisher: Harvard University Press; Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press
Published: 2021
Language: eng
Number of pages: 488
ISBN-13: 9780674257764
Subjects: Law, united states
Description: "Randy Barnett and Evan Bernick return to the primary sources on the origin, drafting, and adoption of the Fourteenth Amendment to better understand its original meaning. Arguing that it protected principles of Republican citizenship, fundamental rights, and civil equality, they propose workable doctrines for implementing these principles in practice"--