We the People: The Fourteenth Amendment and the Supreme Court (Paperback, Revised)

In his new book, Michael Perry evaluates the grave charge that the modern Supreme Court has engineered a 'judicial usurpation of politics'. In particular, Perry inquires which of the several Fourteenth Amendment conflicts - the conflicts over race segregation, race-based affirmative action, sex-based discrimination, homosexuality, abortion, and physician-assisted suicide - have been resolved as they should have been. Perry lays the neccessary groundwork for his inquiry by addressing both questions of constitutional theory and questions of constitutional history.