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Full-Text Articles in Legal History
Masthead, Editors
Masthead, Editors
University of Pennsylvania Journal of Law and Social Change
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On The Road To Civil Gideon: Five Lessons From The Enactment Of A Right To Counsel For Indigent Homeowners In Federal Civil Forfeiture Proceedings, Louis S. Rulli
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What If Slaughter-House Had Been Decided Differently?, Kermit Roosevelt Iii
What If Slaughter-House Had Been Decided Differently?, Kermit Roosevelt Iii
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In The Slaugherhouse Cases, the Supreme Court gutted the Privileges or Immunities Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Though academics continue to argue that Slaughterhouse was wrongly decided and should be overruled, the practical consequences of doing so might not be enormous. The constitutional rights the dissenters found in the Privileges or Immunities Clause are part of our current law anyway, through the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses. But this does not mean that Slaughterhouse cost us nothing. This article explores how our law might be different had Slaughterhouse been decided differently. Rather than taking up the role that Privileges …