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Author | : Howard Jay Graham |
Publisher | : Wisconsin Historical Society |
Total Pages | : 646 |
Release | : 2013-05-31 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 0870206354 |
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In 1938, Howard Jay Graham, a deaf law librarian, successfully argued that the authors of the Fourteenth Amendment--ratified after the American Civil War to establish equal protection under the law for all American citizens regardless of race--were motivated by abolitionist fervor, debunking the notion of a corporate conspiracy at the heart of the amendment's wording. For over half a century, the amendment had been used to endow corporations with rights as individuals and thus protect them from state legislation. By 1968, when Everyman's Constitution was first published, the Fourteenth Amendment had become a tool for the incorporation of the Bill of Rights to apply to all American citizens. The essays in this reprinted edition are still relevant as the nation continues to interpret our framing legislation in light of the concerns of today and to balance citizens' rights against those of corporations. Howard Jay Graham was a law librarian brought in by the NAACP's legal team to write a brief on the Fourteenth Amendment for the Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education. Though the Supreme Court justices ruled in favor of the NAACP based on the sociological rather than historical evidence it provided, Graham's work, published in various law journals over several decades, contributed greatly to the ongoing interpretation of the Fourteenth Amendment.
Author | : John M. Tudor |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 110 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9781556730122 |
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Author | : Sardari Lall Bahl |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 1952 |
Genre | : Constitutional history |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Judith A. Baer |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 450 |
Release | : 2018-03-15 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 1501722751 |
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The principle of equality embedded in the Declaration of Independence and reaffirmed in the Constitution does not distinguish between individuals according to their capacities or merits. It is written into these documents to ensure that each and every person enjoys equal respect and equal rights. Judith Baer maintains, however, that in fact American judicial decisions have consistently denied individuals the form of equality to which they are legally entitled—that the courts have interpreted constitutional guarantees of equal protection in ways that undermine the original intent of Congress. In Equality under the Constitution, Baer examines the background, scope, and purpose of the Constitution’s Fourteenth Amendment and the history of its interpretation by the courts. She traces the development of the idea of equality, drawing on the Bill of Rights, Congressional records, the Civil War amendments, and other sections of the Constitution. Baer discusses many of the significant equal-protection cases decided by the Supreme Court from the time of the amendment’s ratification, including decisions on reverse discrimination, age discrimination, the rights of the disabled, and gay rights. She concludes with a theory of equality more faithful to the history, language, and spirit of the Constitution.
Author | : Howard Jay Graham |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 631 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : United States |
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Author | : Howard Jay Graham |
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Total Pages | : 631 |
Release | : 1968 |
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Download Everyman's Constitution :b Historical Essays on the Fourteenth Amendment, the "conspiracy Theory," and American Constitutionalism /c with a Foreword by Leonard W. Levy Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Ted Nace |
Publisher | : Berrett-Koehler Publishers |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9781576752609 |
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The corporation has become the core institution of the modern world. Designed to seek profit and power, it has pursued both with endless tenacity, steadily bending the framework of law and even challenging the sovereign status of the state. Where did the corporation come from? How did it get so much power? What is its ultimate trajectory? In "Gangs of America", Ted Nace traces the rise of corporate power through a series of fascinating stories, each organized around a different facet of the central question: "How did corporations get more rights than people?" The result is an illuminating account of the people and events that have shaped this puzzling, endlessly evolving entity. -- From publisher's description.
Author | : Gerard N. Magliocca |
Publisher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2013-09-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0814761453 |
Download American Founding Son Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
John Bingham was the architect of the rebirth of the United States following the Civil War. A leading antislavery lawyer and congressman from Ohio, Bingham wrote the most important part of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution, which guarantees fundamental rights and equality to all Americans. He was also at the center of two of the greatest trials in history, giving the closing argument in the military prosecution of John Wilkes Booth’s co-conspirators for the assassination of Abraham Lincoln and in the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson. And more than any other man, Bingham played the key role in shaping the Union’s policy towards the occupied ex-Confederate States, with consequences that still haunt our politics. American Founding Son provides the most complete portrait yet of this remarkable statesman. Drawing on his personal letters and speeches, the book traces Bingham’s life from his humble roots in Pennsylvania through his career as a leader of the Republican Party. Gerard N. Magliocca argues that Bingham and his congressional colleagues transformed the Constitution that the Founding Fathers created, and did so with the same ingenuity that their forbears used to create a more perfect union in the 1780s. In this book, Magliocca restores Bingham to his rightful place as one of our great leaders. Gerard N. Magliocca is the Samuel R. Rosen Professor at Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law. He is the author of three books on constitutional law, and his work on Andrew Jackson was the subject of an hour-long program on C-Span’s Book TV.
Author | : H J Graham |
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Download Everyman's constitution; historical essays Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Michael Conant |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 536 |
Release | : 2017-10-19 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 1351298305 |
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This study uses basic economic analysis as a technique to comment critically on the original meaning and the interpretation of those clauses of the Constitution that have particular bearing on the economy. Many new conclusions are markedly different from those of the Supreme Court and earlier commentators. Conant's view is that the commerce clause and the equal protection clause, if they had been construed consistently with their comprehensive original meanings, would have given much greater federal protection against state laws that impaire free markets. Economic policy for the nation was vested in Congress. To the extent that special interests could buy congressional favor for their anticompetitive activities, free markets were impaired within constraints as interpreted by the court. These decisions have been criticized for their failure to incorporate the antimonopoly tradition in the Ninth Amendment and their failure to recognize equal protection of laws incorporated into the Fifth Amendment. Conant holds that statutory controls of the economy are justifiable in economic theory if they are designed to remedy market failures and thereby increase efficiency. If statutes are passed to interfere with markets and create market inefficiencies for the benefit of special interest groups, they should be condemned under the standards of normative microeconomics. There are four main classes of market failure: monopoly, externalities, public goods, and informational asymmetry. This masterful analysis examines all four reasons for market failure in depth. Litigation costs are analogous to transaction costs. If legal principles and rules are clearly and precisely defined by the Supreme Court when they are first appealed, litigation and its costs should be minimized. Conant claims that if legal principles or rules are uncertain because they lack definable standards, the number of legal actions filed and litigation costs will be much greater. This promotes additional litigation challenging the many statutes enacted to remedy asserted market failures in an expanding industrial economy. This work brilliantly addresses the danger to the economy in court rulings seeking to legislate standards of reasonableness.