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FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT AND THE STATES: A STUDY OF THE OPERATION OF THE RESTRAINT CLAUSES OF SECTION ONE OF THE FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION OF THE...

Collins, Charles Wallace


Item #: 5006

Pages: xxi,220p.
Published: Union; Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.; 2004.

Subjects: CONSTITUTIONAL LAW, STATE LAW

Collins examines the origins of the amendment and the wayits scope was enlarged over time. He argues that is hasfailed to protect African-Americans, and that itsapplication in extra-racial matters has led to excessivelitigation and harmful restrictions on the states. "Thisbook is interesting throughout; but perhaps the moststriking parts are those in which the author gives thefigures as to the number of cases, their nature, and theirgeographical distribution.": Harvard Law Review 26:664-665cited in Marke, A Catalogue of the Law Collection at NewYork University (1953) 408.Reprinted by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.Distributed by William S. Hein & Co., Inc.

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