Document Type
Article
Publication Date
11-2000
Abstract
Never one to shirk a challenge, Michael Perry has taken on the difficult task of investigating whether, as charged by a number of prominent social and legal commentators, "the modern Supreme Court, in the name of the Fourteenth Amendment [to the US Constitution], [has] usurped prerogatives and made choices that properly belong to the electorally accountable representatives of the American people," and if so, to what extent (p. 8). Perry makes no attempt to address every facet of Fourteenth Amendment doctrine, but instead focuses his discussion on some of the most controversial topics: racial segregation, affirmative action, discrimination on the basis of sex and sexuality, abortion and physician-assisted suicide.
Recommended Citation
S. I. Strong,
Book Review: We the People: The Fourteenth Amendment and the Supreme Court, 59 Cambridge Law Journal 641
(2000).
Available at: https://scholarship.law.missouri.edu/facpubs/868