Progressive constitutionalism : reconstructing the Fourteenth Amendment /

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Author / Creator:West, Robin, 1954-
Imprint:Durham : Duke University Press, 1994.
Description:p. cm.
Language:English
Series:Constitutional conflicts
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1678725
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ISBN:0822315254 (cl)
Notes:Includes index.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Part I. Equal Protection of the Laws
  • 1. Toward an Abolitionist Interpretation of the Fourteenth Amendment
  • 2. Equality Theory, Marital Rape, and the Promise of the Fourteenth Amendment
  • 3. The Meaning of Equality and the Interpretive Turn
  • Part II. Due Process of law
  • 4. Reconstructing Liberty
  • 5. The Ideal of Liberty
  • 6. Toward a First Amendment Jurisprudence of Respect
  • Part III. Institutional Responsibilities
  • 7. Constitutional Skepticism
  • 8. The Authoritarian Impulse in Constitutional Law
  • 9. Progressive and Conservative Constitutionalism
  • 10. The Aspirational Constitution
  • Notes
  • Index