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1 online resource. |
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text file |
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Documents decoded
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Documents decoded.
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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). |
| Summary |
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 the many ways in which it has shaped U.S. history, and the impact it has had and may have on American society in the 21st century. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
United States. Constitution. 14th Amendment -- Cases.
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United States. |
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Constitution (United States) |
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Equality before the law -- United States -- Cases.
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Equality before the law. |
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LAW -- Constitutional. |
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LAW -- Public. |
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Electronic books.
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Trials, litigation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Hudson, David L., 1969- Equal protection. Santa Barbara : ABC-Clio, 2018 9781440858048 (DLC) 2017059987 |
| ISBN |
9781440858055 (electronic book) |
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1440858055 (electronic book) |
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9781440858048 (hardcover) |
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