We the people : the Fourteenth Amendment and the Supreme Court / Michael J. Perry.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Perry, Michael J., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States. Constitution--14th Amendment.

United States.

United States. Supreme Court.

Civil rights--United States.

Civil rights.

Political questions and judicial power--United States.

Political questions and judicial power.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (288p.)

Edition:

Pbk. ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, England : Oxford University Press, 1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The author evaluates the grave charge that the modern Supreme Court has engineered a judicial usurpation of politics. In particular, he inquires which of the several Fourteenth Amendment conflicts have been adequately resolved.

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.

Contents:

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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Notes:

Originally published: 1999.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-534860-5

1-4294-0402-7