Abstract
Epps presents information concerning the historical context of the Fourteenth Amendment. Among other implications, the Amendment should be viewed as an effort to defend the national government from control by transient majorities or undemocratic factions in the states.
Citation
Garrett Epps,
The Antebellum Political Background of the Fourteenth Amendment,
67 Law and Contemporary Problems
175-212
(Summer 2004)
Available at: https://scholarship.law.duke.edu/lcp/vol67/iss3/10