Everyman's constitution : historical essays on the fourteenth amendment, the "conspiracy theory," and American constitutionalism / Howard Jay Graham ; with a foreword by Leonard W. Levy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Graham, Howard Jay.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States. Constitution--14th Amendment.

United States.

United States.-Constitution.-14th Amendment.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (646 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Madison : State Historical Society of Wisconsin, [1968]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In 1938, Howard Jay Graham, a deaf law librarian, successfully argued that the authors of the Fourteenth Amendment--ratified after the American Civil War to establish equal protection under the law for all American citizens regardless of race--were motivated by abolitionist fervor, debunking the notion of a corporate conspiracy at the heart.

Contents:

""Contents""; ""Foreword""; ""Author's Preface""; ""Introduction""; ""Chapter 1. The ""Conspiracy Theory"" of the Fourteenth Amendment: Part I ""; ""Chapter 2. The ""Conspiracy Theory"" of the Fourteenth Amendment: Part II""; ""Chapter 3. Justice Field and the Fourteenth Amendment""; ""Chapter 4. The Early Antislavery Backgrounds of the Fourteenth Amendment""; ""Chapter 5. Procedure to Substance: Extrajudicial Rise of Due Process, 1830-1860""; ""Chapter 6. The Fourteenth Amendment and School Segregation ""; ""Chapter 7. Our ""Declaratory"" Fourteenth Amendment""

""Chapter 8. Crosskey's Constitution: An Archeological Blueprint"" ""Chapter 9. An Innocent Abroad: The Constitutional Corporate ""Person"" ""; ""Chapter 10. ""Builded Better Than They Knew"" : The Framers, the Railroads and the Fourteenth Amendment""; ""Chapter 11. Acres for Cents: The Economic and Constitutional Significance of Frontier Tax Tiles, 1800-1890""; ""Chapter 12. ""Prophet Unhonored"" : Robert S. Blackwell, Tax Titles, and the ""Substantive Revolution"" in Due Process and Equal Protection, 1830-1880""; ""Chapter 13. The Waite Court and the Fourteenth Amendment ""

""Chapter 14. Everyman's Constitution: A Centennial View """"Appendixes""; ""Index""

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

0-87020-635-4

OCLC:

923518012