The Fourteenth Amendment

From Political Principle to Judicial Doctrine

William E. Nelson

  • Winner of the Littleton-Griswold Award of the American Historical Association

An important and timely study...Nelson successfully demonstrates the substance and consistency of pre-Lochner Fourteenth Amendment jurisprudence. This is a significant achievement.
   --Louis S. Gerteis, American Journal of Legal History

Improves our understanding of how the Fourteenth Amendment was able to be read so expansively...Adds enormously to our constitutional history.
   --Frank J. Macchiarola, Political Science Quarterly

William E. Nelson is Professor of Law and History, New York University.