Record Nr.

UNINA9910828585303321

Autore

Scaturro Frank J

Titolo

The Supreme Court's retreat from Reconstruction : a distortion of constitutional jurisprudence / / Frank J. Scaturro

Pubbl/distr/stampa


Westport, Conn. : , : Praeger, , 2000
London : , : Bloomsbury Publishing, , 2024

ISBN

979-82-16-02163-6

0-313-00227-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (319 p.)

Collana

Contributions in legal studies, , 0147-1074 ; ; no. 91

Disciplina

342.73/085

Soggetti

Civil rights - United States - History - 19th century

Constitutional history - United States

United States Politics and government 1865-1900

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- The Supreme Court's Retreat from Reconstruction -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Introduction -- 2 A Brief Overview of Reconstruction and the Nation's Retreat -- 3 The Supreme Court's Retreat from Reconstruction -- A. PRELUDE TO RETREAT -- B. THE COURT'S DECISIONS DURING THE 1870S -- 1. Blyew v. United States -- 2. The Privileges and Immunities Clause and the Slaughter-House Cases -- a. Background: Justice Bradley, Live-Stock Dealers' &amp -- Butchers' Ass'n and Hall -- b. The Court's Opinion in the Slaughter-House Cases -- c. The Slaughter-House Dissents -- d. The Slaughter-House Cases in View of Congressional Understandings -- e. Bradwell: Application of the Slaughter-House Principle -- 3. Railroad Co. v. Brown: The Court and Segregation in 1874 -- 4. Minor v. Hapersett and Suffrage under the Fourteenth Amendment -- 5. The Fifteenth Amendment and United States v. Reese -- a. United States v. Given -- b. The Court's opinion in Reese -- c. Justice Hunt's Dissent -- d. Reese in View of Political Understandings -- 6. United States v. Cruikshank -- a. The Court's Opinion in Cruikshank -- b. Analysis of Cruikshank and the Incorporation Debate -- b.1. The Court and Congressional Understandings -- b.2. The Incorporation Doctrine -- 7. Hall v. Decuir:

Segregation and the Interstate Commerce Clause -- C. THE JURY DISCRIMINATION CASES: EXCEPTION TO THE RETREAT -- 1. The Court and Jury Discrimination, 1880-1883 -- 2. Contemporary Legislative Views on Jury Discrimination and the Constitution -- D. THE FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT STATE ACTION DOCTRINE: UNITED STATES V. HARRIS, THE CIVIL RIGHTS CASES, AND BALDWIN V. FRANKS -- 1. United States v. Harris -- 2. The Civil Rights Cases -- a. Justice Bradley and the Court's Opinion -- b. Justice Harlan's Dissent.

3. The State Action Doctrine and Section 5 of the Fourteenth Amendment: The Constitutional Basis for 2 of the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871 and 1 and 2 of the Civil Rights Act of 1875 -- a. Preliminary Views on the Doctrine of the Civil Rights Cases -- a.1. The Thirteenth Amendment and the Civil Rights Act of 1866 -- a.2. The Fourteenth Amendment -- b. The Constitutional Debate over 2 of the Ku Klux Klan Act -- b.1. Bingham's Original Proposal and the Question of Federal Protection of Life, Liberty, and Property -- b.2. Debates over the Validity of 2 of the Ku Klux Klan Act -- c. Debates over 1 and 2 of the Civil Rights Act of 1875 and its Precursors -- c.1. The Forty-Second Congress -- c.2. The Forty-Third Congress -- d. Conclusion: Reactions to the Court-1883 and Afterward -- 4. Baldwin v. Franks -- E. THE TRIUMPH OF SEGREGATION -- 1. Louisville v. Mississippi: Segregation and the Interstate Commerce Clause Revisited -- 2. Plessy v. Ferguson -- a. The Court's Opinion -- b. Justice Harlan's Dissent -- c. The Court's Opinion in View of Contemporary Understandings -- d. School Segregation -- F. RETREAT FROM THE FIFTEENTH AMENDMENT -- 1. Williams v. Mississippi -- 2. Giles v. Harris -- 3. James v. Bowman and the Fifteenth Amendment State Action Doctrine -- a. The Court's Opinion -- b. Contemporary Understandings of the Fifteenth Amendment and State Action -- 4. Grovey v. Townsend -- 4 The Court's Reconsideration of Civil Rights during the Twentieth Century -- A. THE WHITE PRIMARY -- B. BROWN V. BOARD OF EDUCATION AND SCHOOL SEGREGATION -- 1. The Court's Opinion -- 2. School Segregation and the Reconstruction Debates -- a. Preliminary Observations about Historical Context -- b. Debates Preceding Consideration of the Civil Rights Act of 1875 and Its Precursors -- c. Debates over the Civil Rights Act of 1875 and Its Precursors.

c.1. The Forty-Second Congress -- c.2. The Forty-Third Congress -- d. Conclusions -- C. THE REFORMULATION OF CONSTITUTIONAL JURISPRUDENCE ADDRESSING CIVIL RIGHTS LEGISLATION -- 1. United States v. Raines and the Collapse of the Reese Doctrine -- 2. Sidestepping the Fourteenth Amendment State Action Doctrine: The Uncertain Fate of Section 5 -- a. Heart of Atlanta Motel and Katzenbach -- b. Postscript: Guest and Daniel -- 3. Section 2 of the Thirteenth Amendment: The Partial Resuscitation of the Reconstruction Amendments -- 4. Section 5 Returns to the Court -- 5 Conclusion -- Notes -- EPIGRAPH -- CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 2: A BRIEF OVERVIEW OF RECONSTRUCTION AND THE NATION'S RETREAT -- CHAPTER 3: THE SUPREME COURT'S RETREAT FROM RECONSTRUCTION -- A. Prelude to Retreat -- B. The Court's Decisions during the 1870s -- 1. Blyew v. United States -- 2. The Privileges and Immunities Clause and the Slaughter-House -- 3. Railroad Co. v. Brown: The Court and Segregation in 1874 -- 4. Minor v. Hapersett and Suffrage under the Fourteenth Amendment -- 5. The Fifteenth Amendment and United States v. Reese -- 6. United States v. Cruikshank -- 7. Hall v. Decuir: Segregation and the Interstate Commerce Clause -- C. The Jury Discrimination Cases: Exception to the Retreat -- 1. The Court and Jury Discrimination, 1880-1883 -- 2. Contemporary Legislative Views on Jury Discrimination and the -- D. The Fourteenth Amendment State

Action Doctrine: United States v. Harris, the Civil Rights Cases, and Baldwin v. Franks -- 1. United States v. Harris -- 2. The Civil Rights Cases -- 3. The State Action Doctrine and Section 5 of the Fourteenth -- 4. Baldwin v. Franks -- E. The Triumph of Segregation -- 1. Louisville v. Mississippi: Segregation and the Interstate Commerce -- 2. Plessy v. Ferguson -- F. Retreat from the Fifteenth Amendment -- 1. Williams v. Mississippi.

2. Giles v. Harris -- 3. James v. Bowman and the Fifteenth Amendment State Action Doctrine -- 4. Grovey v. Townsend -- CHAPTER 4: THE COURT'S RECONSIDERATION OF CIVIL RIGHTS DURING THE TWENTIETH CENTURY -- A. The White Primary -- B. Brown v. Board of Education and School Segregation -- 1. The Court's Opinion -- 2. School Segregation and the Reconstruction Debates -- C. The Reformulation of Constitutional Jurisprudence Addressing Civil Rights Legislation -- 1. United States v. Raines and the Collapse of the Reese Doctrine -- 2. Sidestepping the Fourteenth Amendment State Action Doctrine: -- 3. Section 2 of the Thirteenth Amendment: The Partial Resuscitation -- 4. Section 5 Returns to the Court -- CHAPTER 5: CONCLUSION -- Table of Cases -- Index -- About the Author.