Constructing Civil Liberties Discontinuities in the Development of American Constitutional Law
Constructing Civil Liberties Discontinuities in the Development of American Constitutional Law
This is a book about the paths of constitutional development culminating in the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark civil liberties and civil rights jurisprudence of the 1960s and 1970s. The roads to Mapp v. Ohio (1961) (search and seizure/privacy), University of California Board of Regents v. Bakke (1978) (affirmative action), Engle v. Vitale (1962) (separation of church and state), and other emblematic decisions marking the high tide of twentieth-century constitutional liberalism, I argue here, shou