United States Constitution Amendment 14

Explores judicial activism and usurpation of the legislative process under the guise of the Fourteenth Amendment.

An antidote for judicial activism, which gives historical evidence that current interpretations of the first and fourteenth amendments is flawed.

Reprints of a variety of original sources and commentaries, both from the point of view of the right to keep and bear arms and from the point of view of gun-control advocates. Includes a discussion of the intent of the Fourteenth Amendment in assuring the right to keep and bear arms to former slaves in the South.

The author presents evidence that the framers of the Fourteenth Amendment intended to affirm the general public's long-standing rhetorical commitment to the principle of equality and individual rights on the one hand, and to the principle of local self-rule on the other.

Examines the 14th Amendment as it relates to the right of the former slaves to carry arms.

Is the Supreme Court usurping American politics? An analysis of several major constitutional conflicts centered on the Fourteenth Amendment - conflicts over racial segregation, race-based affirmative action, sex-based discrimination, homosexuality, abortion, and physician-assisted suicide.

A radical feminist plays fast and loose with historical data in an attempt to reshape the Fourteenth Amendment into a tool for advancing the progressive leftist cause.

Original source documents and commentary on the Southern ratification debate on the 14th Amendment. The author argues that the 14th Amendment was intended both to guarantee everyone the fundamental rights of citizenship and personhood and to nationalize the protection of those rights within the federal structure ordained by the Constitution. That means that the states were to retain primary responsibility for defining and protecting those rights, subject only to the requirement that they treat all fairly and equally. Rooted in the natural rights philosophy of the Declaration of Independence rather than in the text of the Bill of Rights, the commands of the 14th Amendment were intended to protect liberty in an inseparable union of states.

In recent years the Supreme Court has taken an expansive interpretation of the 14th Amendment to apply the Bill of Rights to the states. The author argues that this is contrary to the original intent of the fourteenth amendment, which should be understood in the light of the tenth amendment.

The author argues that the Fourteenth Amendment was intended by the framers to incorporate the Bill of Rights and therefore to inhibit state action. This is the interpretation which is favored by advocates of judicial activism at the Federal level.

Examines the intent of the states in ratifying the Fourteenth Amendment.

A study of the doctrine of equal protection as promulgated in the Fourteenth Amendment and its interpretation by the Supreme Court down to the present.

The first eleven Amendments to the Constitution were intended as checks or limitations on the Federal Government, due largely to the fear that the Federal Government might become too strong and centralized. The Amendments arising out of the Civil War Between the States have just the opposite effect, and finding the proper balance has been left to the courts.