Publication | Closed Access
No State Shall Abridge: The Fourteenth Amendment and the Bill of Rights
24
Citations
0
References
1987
Year
HumanitiesStates' RightsCivil Rights ActionsCivil LibertyLegal TheoryConstitutional AmendmentConstitutional LitigationLegal HistoryCivil RightsLawConstitutional LawFourteenth AmendmentFederal Constitutional LawState Shall AbridgeFreedom Of SpeechConstitution
We have lines: 1. [Background, Findings] 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 HistoryCurtis 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. So Background and Findings content. 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 HistoryCurtis 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 scholars, . . . he rebuts their argument with vigor and effectiveness, conclusively demonstrating the legitimacy of the incorporation thesis. . . A bold, forcefully argued, important study.--Library Journal