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The Supreme Court's Retreat from Reconstruction: A Distortion of Constitutional Jurisprudence
A comparison of the Supreme Court's holdings regarding the Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the framers' own interpretations, and an examination of the resulting distortions of constitutional law, some of which continue in the 1990s.
| Author(s) | By Frank J. Scaturro. |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing Plc |
| Format | Hardback |
| Pages | 320 |
| Published in | United States |
| Published | 30 Mar 2000 |
| Availability | Not yet available |
A comparison of the Supreme Court's holdings regarding the Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the framers' own interpretations, and an examination of the resulting distortions of constitutional law, some of which continue in the 1990s.
Introduction A Brief Overview of Reconstruction and the Nation's Retreat The Supreme Court's Retreat from Reconstruction The Court's Reconsideration of Civil Rights during the Twentieth Century Conclusion Index
FRANK J. SCATURRO is currently an associate at Cadwalader, Wickersham, and Taft in New York. With a lifelong interest in history, he founded the Grant Monument Association in 1994 to draw public attention to the disrepair of Grant's Tomb in New York City.
