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The Supreme Court's Retreat from Reconstruction: A Distortion of Constitutional Jurisprudence (Contributions in Legal Studies)
The Supreme Court's Retreat from Reconstruction A Distortion of Constitutional Jurisprudence - Contributions in Legal Studies
Author: Frank J. Scaturro
As the nation turned its back on Reconstruction, the Supreme Court in turn narrowed Thirteenth-, Fourteenth-, and Fifteenth-Amendment protections of former slaves, thus straying from the understanding of the amendments' framers. Tracking a long line of cases that employed narrow constructions of these amendments and accompanying statutes, this s...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780313311055
ISBN-10: 0313311056
Publication Date: 3/30/2000
Pages: 320
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Publisher: Greenwood Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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