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: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822305992
• ISBN13: 9780822305996
• Release Date: May 1986
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.