by William E. Nelson
Harvard University Press, 1988
Paper: 978-0-674-31626-3 | eISBN: 978-0-674-04142-4 | Cloth: 978-0-674-31625-6
Library of Congress Classification KF4757.N45 1988
Dewey Decimal Classification 342.73085

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ABOUT THIS BOOK
In a remarkably fresh and historically grounded reinterpretation of the American Constitution, William Nelson argues that the fourteenth amendment was written to affirm the general public’s long-standing rhetorical commitment to the principles of equality and individual rights on the one hand, and to the principle of local self-rule on the other.