The Supreme Court's Retreat from Reconstruction: A Distortion of Constitutional Jurisprudence

by Frank J. Scaturro

As the nation turned its back on Reconstruction, the Supreme Court in turn narrowed Thirteenth-, Fourteenth-, and Fifteenth-Amendment protections of former slaves, thus straying from the understanding of the amendments' framers. Tracking a long line of cases that employed narrow constructions of these amendments and accompanying statutes, this study compares the Court's propositions to the framers' own interpretations. The resulting portrait makes...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313311056
• ISBN13: 9780313311055
• Release Date: March 2000
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.5"