We the people
Subtitle: the Fourteenth Amendment and the Supreme Court
By: Michael J. Perry.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 275
Subjects: United States; United States. Supreme Court; Civil rights -- United States; Political questions and judicial power -- United States
Description: "Is the Supreme Court usurping American politics? In this book eminent legal scholar Michael J. Perry addresses this grave question, specifically inquiring into which of several major constitutional conflicts centered on the Fourteenth Amendment - conflicts over racial segregation, race-based affirmative action, sex-based discrimination, homosexuality, abortion, and physician-assisted suicide - have been resolved as they should have been."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes index.