Equal protection : documents decoded /

This book uses primary sources to closely examine the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment and to show how legal interpretations of it have had a profound impact on American life as we know it. It closely examines the history and development of the Equal Protection Clause and details...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hudson, David L., 1969- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Santa Barbara, California : ABC-CLIO, LLC, [2018]
Colección:Documents decoded.
Temas:
United States. > Constitution. > 14th Amendment > Cases.
Constitution (United States)
Equality before the law > United States > Cases.
LAW > Constitutional.
LAW > Public.
Equality before the law
United States
Trials, litigation, etc.
Internet resources.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Senator Howard's speech introducing the Fourteenth Amendment to Congress (May 23, 1866)
  • Strauder v. West Virginia (March 1, 1880)
  • The civil rights cases (October 15, 1883)
  • Yick Wo v. Hopkins (May 10, 1886)
  • Plessy v. Ferguson (May 18, 1896)
  • Justice Harlan's "Great Dissent" in Plessy v. Ferguson (May 18, 1896)
  • Korematsu v. United States (December 18, 1944)
  • Shelley v. Kraemer (May 3, 1948)
  • Sweatt v. Painter (June 5, 1950)
  • Hernandez v. Texas (May 3, 1954)
  • Brown v. Board of Education (May 17, 1954)
  • President Johnson's commencement address at Howard University (June 4, 1965)
  • Loving v. Virginia (June 12, 1967)
  • Graham v. Richardson (June 14, 1971)
  • Reed v. Reed (November 22, 1971)
  • In re Griffiths (June 25, 1973)
  • Washington v. Davis (June 7, 1976)
  • Craig v. Boren (December 20, 1976)
  • Bakke v. University of California (June 28, 1978)
  • Ambach v. Norwick (April 17, 1979)
  • Plyler v. Doe (June 15, 1982)
  • Batson v. Kentucky (April 30, 1986)
  • McCleskey v. Kemp (April 22, 1987)
  • Justice Marshall's Bicentennial Speech (May 6, 1987)
  • Romer v. Evans (May 20, 1996)
  • United States v. Virginia (June 26, 1996)
  • Justice Breyer's speech on the 50th anniversary of the Brown Decision (May 17, 2004)
  • Johnson v. California (February 23, 2005)
  • Justice Ginsburg's speech on gender discrimination (February 10, 2006)
  • Obergefell v. Hodges (June 26, 2015)
  • President Obama's statement on the Obergefell Decision (June 26, 2015).

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