Description: The Second Founding Introduction to Fourteenth Amendment HC Wurman History Law Good, pre-owned condition. Pages are clean, crisp and unmarked. There is a name/date written inside cover, as shown in final photo. Some wear on cover. Please review photos. In The Second Founding: An Introduction to the Fourteenth Amendment, Ilan Wurman provides an illuminating introduction to the original meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment's famous provisions 'due process of law,' 'equal protection of the laws,' and the 'privileges' or 'immunities' of citizenship. He begins by exploring the antebellum legal meanings of these concepts, starting from Magna Carta, the Statutes of Edward III, and the Petition of Right to William Blackstone and antebellum state court cases. The book then traces how these concepts solved historical problems confronting framers of the Fourteenth Amendment, including the comity rights of free blacks, private violence and the denial of the protection of the laws, and the notorious abridgment of freedmen's rights in the Black Codes. Wurman makes a compelling case that, if the modern originalist Supreme Court interpreted the Amendment in 'the language of the law,' it would lead to surprising and desirable results today.
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Publication Year: 2020
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Book Title: The Second Founding: And Introduction to the Fourth Amendment
Author: Ian Wurman
Narrative Type: Nonfiction
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Genre: Historical, Politics & Society
Topic: American History, Books, Constitution, Rights, Law, America, History
Number of Pages: 170
