Everyman's Constitution : historical essays on the Fourteenth Amendment, the "conspiracy theory", and American constitutionalism /
"The Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified in the wake of the American Civil War to establish equal protection under the law for all American citizens regardless of race. Yet for over half a century, the amendment was used to endow corporations with rights as indiv...
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[Madison, Wisconsin] :
Wisconsin Historical Society Press,
2013
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Table of Contents:
- The "conspiracy theory" of the Fourteenth Amendment
- Justice Field and the Fourteenth Amendment
- The early antislavery backgrounds of the Fourteenth Amendment
- Procedure to substance: extrajudicial use of due process, 1830-1860
- The Fourteenth Amendment and school segregation
- Our "declaratory" Fourteenth Amendment
- Crosskey's Constitution: an archeological blueprint
- An innocent abroad: the constitutional corporate "person"
- "Builded better than they knew": the framers, the railroads and the Fourteenth Amendment
- "Acres for cents": the economic and constitutional significance of frontier tax titles, 1800-1890
- "Prophet unhonored": Robert S. Blackwell, tax titles, and the "substantive revolution" in due process and equal protection, 1830-1880
- The Waite Court and the Fourteenth Amendment
- Everyman's Constitution: a centennial view