Six Amendments : How and Why We Should Change the Constitution (9780316333597) by Stevens John Paul

Six Amendments : How and Why We Should Change the Constitution (9780316333597) by Stevens John Paul

Author:Stevens, John Paul [Stevens, John Paul]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Political Science / Constitutions, Political Science / American Government / National, Political Science / American Government / Judicial Branch
Publisher: Hachette Book Group USA
Published: 2014-04-21T20:00:00+00:00


In sum, if the compromise that led to the withdrawal of Union troops allowed the Southern states “to incur the odium of the world” by permitting lynchings and Klan violence to prevent African Americans from voting and to maintain white supremacy, the incremental odium flowing from refusing to pay their debts need not trouble federal judges. The resurrection of the doctrine of state sovereign immunity in the post-Reconstruction years, to use Thurgood Marshall’s language quoted in Chapter I, should not be “representative of the law today.”



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