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Originalism And The Colorblind Constitution, Michael B. Rappaport
Originalism And The Colorblind Constitution, Michael B. Rappaport
Notre Dame Law Review
In this Article, I challenge the claim that the original meaning clearly allows the states to engage in affirmative action. I argue that the original meaning does not plainly establish that affirmative action by the states is constitutional. Instead, there is, at the least, a reasonable argument to be made that state government affirmative action is unconstitutional. In fact, based on the available evidence, I believe that the case for concluding that the Fourteenth Amendment’s original meaning prohibits affirmative action as to laws within its scope is stronger than the case for concluding that it allows affirmative action. I do …
Due Process And Social Legislation In The Supreme Court--A Post Mortem, Robert E. Rodes
Due Process And Social Legislation In The Supreme Court--A Post Mortem, Robert E. Rodes
Journal Articles
Nowadays, there is no more discredited era in our judicial history than that represented by such cases as Lochner v. New York.' During this era, we are told, our ancestors were so benighted economically as to embrace economic principles incapable of producing the good life, and so benighted judicially as to read their economics into the Constitution. We have barely left behind us the bulk of the advocates and judges whose role in history it was to slay the giant laissez-faire, so it is not surprising that we should have no picture of their adversary but the dne that was …