Progressive Constitutionalism; Reconstructing the Fourteenth Amendment

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: book review, constitution, Fourteenth Amendment, 14th amendment.

Title: Progressive Constitutionalism; Reconstructing the Fourteenth Amendment Author: Robin West Publisher: Duke University Press Date Published: December 1994 ISBN: 0822315254 Pages: 368

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CONTENTS

Introduction

Part I: Equal Protection of the Laws

Chapter 1: Toward an Abolitionist Interpretation of the Fourteenth Amendment

Chapter 2: Equality Theory, Marital Rape, and the Promise of the Fourteenth Amendment

Chapter 3: The Meaning of Equality and the Interpretive Turn

Part II: Due Process of Law

Chapter 4: Reconstructing Liberty

Chapter 5: The Ideal of Liberty

Chapter 6: Toward a First Amendment Jurisprudence of Respect

Part III: Institutional Responsibilities

Chapter 7: Constitutional Skepticism

Chapter 8: The Authoritarian Impulse in Constitutional Law

Chapter 9: Progressive and Conservative Constitutionalism

Chapter 10: The Aspirational Constitution

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