No State Shall Abridge: The Fourteenth Amendment and the Bill of Rights

by Michael Kent Curtis

Book Overview

"The book is carefully organized and well written, and it deals with a question that is still of great importance-what is the relationship of the Bill of Rights to the states."-Journal of American History

"Curtis effectively settles a serious legal debate: whether the framers of the 14th Amendment intended to incorporate the Bill of Rights guarantees and thereby inhibit state action. Taking on a formidable array of constitutional scholars,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 082231035X
• ISBN13: 9780822310358
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 9.0"