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1995

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Full-Text Articles in Fourteenth Amendment

Reflections On Inclusionary Housing And A Renewed Look At Its Viability, Laura M. Padilla Jan 1995

Reflections On Inclusionary Housing And A Renewed Look At Its Viability, Laura M. Padilla

Faculty Scholarship

This article explores property rights, housing policy, and affordable housing.


The Other Right-To-Life Debate: When Does Fourteenth Amendment Life End, Douglas O. Linder Jan 1995

The Other Right-To-Life Debate: When Does Fourteenth Amendment Life End, Douglas O. Linder

Faculty Works

No abstract provided.


Reflections On From Slaves To Citizens Bondage, Freedom And The Constitution: The New Slavery Scholarship And Its Impact On Law And Legal Historiography, Robert J. Kaczorowski Jan 1995

Reflections On From Slaves To Citizens Bondage, Freedom And The Constitution: The New Slavery Scholarship And Its Impact On Law And Legal Historiography, Robert J. Kaczorowski

Faculty Scholarship

The thesis of Professor Donald Nieman's paper, "From Slaves to Citizens: African-Americans, Rights Consciousness, and Reconstruction," is that the nation experienced a revolution in the United States Constitution and in the consciousness of African Americans. According to Professor Nieman, the Reconstruction Amendments represented "a dramatic departure from antebellum constitutional principles,"' because the Thirteenth Amendment reversed the pre-Civil War constitutional guarantee of slavery and "abolish[ed] slavery by federal authority." The Fourteenth Amendment rejected the Supreme Court's "racially-based definition of citizenship [in Dred Scott v. Sandford4], clearly establishing a color-blind citizenship” and the Fifteenth Amendment "wrote the principle of equality into the …


Equal Protection Jan 1995

Equal Protection

Touro Law Review

No abstract provided.


Forty Years In The Desert, Paul F. Campos Jan 1995

Forty Years In The Desert, Paul F. Campos

Publications

The author uses Brown v. Board of Education and the volumes of commentary it has provoked to illustrate that coherent constitutional interpretation is a useless exercise. He argues that the decision should be accepted as political reality and moral necessity and that we should cease debating its merit as constitutional interpretation.