We the People: The Fourteenth Amendment and the Supreme Court
The Fourteenth Amendment and the Supreme Court
1st Edition
Published on 8. November 2001
286 pages
978-0-19-534860-6 (ISBN)
Description
Several of the most divisive moral conflicts that have beset Americans in the period since World War II have been transmuted into constitutional conflicts and resolved as such. In his new book, eminent legal scholar Michael Perry evaluates the grave charge that the modern Supreme Court has engineered a "judicial usurpation of politics." In particular, Perry inquires which of several major Fourteenth Amendment conflicts--over race segregation, race-based affirmative action, sex-based discrimination, homosexuality, abortion, and physician-assisted suicide--have been resolved as they should have been. He lays the necessary groundwork for his inquiry by addressing questions of both constitutional theory and constitutional history. A clear-eyed examination of some of the perennial controversies in American life, We the People is a major contribution to modern constitutional studies.
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Michael J. Perry holds the University Distinguished Chair in Law at Wake Forest University. From 1982 to 1997, he taught at the Nothwestern University School of Law, where he held the Howard J. Trienens Chair in Law. Perry is the author of several books, including The Idea of Human Rights: Four Inquiries (Oxford, 1998), Religion in Politics: Constitutional and Moral Perspectives (Oxford, 1997), The Constitution in the Courts: Law or Politics? (Oxford, 1994), and Love and Power: The Role of Religion and Morality in American Politics (Oxford, 1991).
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- 1. Introduction: "The Judicial Usurpation of Politics
- 2. What Is "the Constitution"? (And Other Fundamental Questions)
- 3. The Fourteenth Amendment: What Norms Did "We the People" Establish?
- 4. The Fourteenth Amendment and Race: Segregation and Affirmative Action
- 5. Beyond Race: Sex and Sexual Orientation
- 6. Further Beyond: Abortion and Physician-Assisted Suicide
- 7. Concluding Reflections
- Notes
- Index
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