The Second Founding An Introduction To The Fourteenth Amendment Ilan Wurman by Ilan Wurman 9781108823951, 9781108843157, 9781108914956, 1108823955, 1108843158, 1108914950 instant download after payment.

In The Second Founding: An Introduction to the Fourteenth
Amendment, Ilan Wurman provides an illuminating introduction
to the original meaning of the Fourteenth
Amendment’s famous provisions “due process of law,”
“equal protection of the laws,” and the “privileges or
immunities” of citizenship. He begins by exploring the
antebellum legal meanings of these concepts, from
Magna Carta, the Statutes of Edward III, and the Petition
of Right to William Blackstone and antebellum state court
cases. The book then traces how these concepts solved
historical problems confronting the framers of the
Fourteenth Amendment, including the comity rights of
free blacks, private violence and the denial of the protection
of the laws, and the notorious abridgment of freedmen’s
rights in the Black Codes. Wurman makes
a compelling case that if the modern originalist Supreme
Court were to interpret the Amendment in “the language
of the law,” it would lead to surprising and desirable results
today.