"Modern ideas about the protection of free speech in the United States did not originate in twentieth-century Supreme Court cases, as many have thought. Free Speech, "The People's Darling Privilege" refutes this misconception by examining popular struggles for free speech that stretch back through American history. Michael Kent Curtis focuses on struggles in which ordinary and extraordinary people, men and women, black and white, demande ..."
"The new one-volume edition of Constitutional Law in Context (down from two volumes) continues to provide historical materials, as well as essays and a timeline that together highlight the organic development of constitutional law. These essays, and additional diagrams, help students understand doctrine and cases. This was among the first constitutional law books to take a historical and contextual approach; that focus remains, complemen ..."
"Through both historical essays and a timeline of American constitutional history, Constitutional Law in Context helps students understand constitutional law in light of cases, doctrine, constitutional analysis, federalism, and historical context. It covers both structure of government and individual liberty cases, and it includes a substantial chapter on free speech. In addition, the book provides historical context for the cases. The c ..."
No State Shall Abridge(58142nd) The Fourteenth Amendment and the Bill of Rights by MichaelKentCurtis Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 1990 by Duke University Press Books Abridged ISBN-13: 978-0-8223-1035-8, ISBN: 0-8223-1035-X
""The book is carefully organized and well written, and it deals with a question that is still of great importance--what is the relationship of the Bill of Rights to the states."--"Journal of American History""Curtis effectively settles a serious legal debate: whether the framers of the 14th Amendment intended to incorporate the Bill of Rights guarantees and thereby inhibit state action. Taking on a formidable array of constitutional sch ..."
"Through both historical essays and a timeline of American constitutional history, Constitutional Law in Context helps students understand constitutional law in light of cases, doctrine, constitutional analysis, federalism, and historical context. It covers both structure of government and individual liberty cases, and it includes a substantial chapter on free speech. In addition, the book provides historical context for the cases. The c ..."
No State Shall Abridge(Abridged) The Fourteenth Amendment and the Bill of Rights by MichaelKentCurtis Hardcover, 288 Pages, Published 1987 by Duke University Press Books Abridged ISBN-13: 978-0-8223-0599-6, ISBN: 0-8223-0599-2
"“The book is carefully organized and well written, and it deals with a question that is still of great importance—what is the relationship of the Bill of Rights to the states.”—Journal of American History“Curtis effectively settles a serious legal debate: whether the framers of the 14th Amendment intended to incorporate the Bill of Rights guarantees and thereby inhibit state action. Taking on a formidable array of constitutional scholar ..."
"Central to the development of the American legal system, writes Professor Finkelman in Slavery & the Law, is the institution of slavery. It informs us not only about early concepts of race and property, but about the nature of American democracy itself. Prominent historians of slavery and legal scholars analyze the intricate relationship between slavery, race, and the law from the earliest Black Codes in colonial America to the passage ..."
"Constitutional Law in Context puts major constitutional developments into historical perspective by helping readers see how doctrinal developments were shaped by historical context and how historical developments affecting one doctrine often influenced other doctrines as well. Obvious examples include changes in commerce clause doctrine, substantive due process, and law related to race and gender. The chapter on incorporation shows h ..."
"This volume is now available only as a paperback -- ISBN 978-1-5310-0476-7 ($90). Through both historical essays and a timeline of American constitutional history, Constitutional Law in Context helps students understand constitutional law in light of cases, doctrine, constitutional analysis, federalism, and historical context. It covers both structure of government and individual liberty cases, and it includes a substantial chapter on f ..."
"First Published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company."
No State Shall Abridge The Fourteenth Amendment and the Bill of Rights by MichaelKentCurtis 288 Pages, Published 2013 by Duke University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8223-9740-3, ISBN: 0-8223-9740-4
"The Fourteenth Amendment and the Bill of Rights Michael Kent Curtis ... and
draws conclusions on the Bill of Rights question somewhat different from those
reached here; William Wiecek's Sources of Antislavery Constitutionalism in
America; ..."
"Central to the development of the American legal system, writes Professor Finkelman in Slavery & the Law, is the institution of slavery. It informs us not only about early concepts of race and property, but about the nature of American democracy itself. Prominent historians of slavery and legal scholars analyze the intricate relationship between slavery, race, and the law from the earliest Black Codes in colonial America to the passage ..."
"West Virginia, loo U.S. 303 (1880), and the Civil Rights Cases, io9 U.S. 3 (1883).
14. Baileyv. Alabama, 219 U.S. 219 (1911). ... “The American Civil War as a
Constitutional Crisis,” American Historical Review 6o (1964): 327; portions are
reprinted in ... the newest casebook in the field—Daniel Farber, Philip Frickey,
and William Eskridge, Constitutional Law: Themes for ... Sullivan is best
understood within the context of attempts ..."