- Foreword [James Oakes]
- Preface: The Letter
- Introduction: The Letter and Spirit of the Fourteenth Amendment
- I. The Privileges or Immunities of Citizenship Clause
- 1. The Early Origins of Privileges or Immunities
- 2. The Antislavery Origins of “Privileges or Immunities”
- 3. The Antislavery Origins of Republican Citizenship
- 4. Reconstructing National Citizenship
- 5. The Letter: Writing and Ratifying the Privileges or Immunities Clause
- 6. Enforcing Citizenship
- 7. Competing Originalist Interpretations
- 8. The Spirit: Implementing the Privileges or Immunities Clause
- II. The Due Process of Law Clause
- 9. The Letter: The Original Meaning of “Due Process of Law”
- 10. The Spirit: Implementing the Due Process of Law Clause
- 11. The Proper Ends of Legislative Power
- III. The Equal Protection of the Laws Clause
- 12. The Letter: The “Equal Protection of the Laws”
- 13. The Spirit: Implementing the Equal Protection of the Laws
- Conclusion: The Fourteenth Amendment in Full
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index


The Original Meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment
Its Letter and Spirit
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$35.00 • £28.95 • €31.50
ISBN 9780674257764
Publication Date: 11/02/2021