GOVERNMENT BY JUDICIARY
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—FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT, §1
Nullius in Verbo
—Motto of the Royal Society, London
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Contents
Supplementary Note on the Introduction
Supplementary Note on the Civil Rights Act and the Fourteenth Amendment: Fundamental Rights
3. The “Privileges or Immunities of a Citizen of the United States”
4. Negro Suffrage Was Excluded
Supplementary Note on Suffrage
6. The “Open-Ended” Phraseology Theory
Supplementary Note on Segregated Schools
8. Incorporation of the Bill of Rights in the Fourteenth Amendment
Supplementary Note on Incorporation
9. Opposition Statements Examined
10. “Equal Protection of the Laws”
11. “Due Process of Law”
12. Section Five: “Congress Shall Enforce”
13. Incorporation of Abolitionist Theory in Section One
Supplementary Note on Abolitionist Influence
PART II
14. From Natural Law to Libertarian Due Process
Supplementary Note on Natural Law and the Constitution
15. “The Rule of Law”
16. The Judiciary Was Excluded from Policymaking
Supplementary Note on Exclusion of the Judiciary
17. The Turnabout of the Libertarians
18. Liberals and the Burger Court
19. The Legitimacy of Judicial Review
Supplementary Note on the Role of the Court
20. Why the “Original Intention”?
Supplementary Note on Original Intention
21. Arguments for Judicial Power of Revision
22. “Trial by Jury”: Six or Twelve Jurors?
23. Conclusion
Supplementary Note on the Conclusion
Appendix A: Van Alstyne’s Critique of Justice Harlan’s Dissent
Appendix B: Judicial Administration of Local Matters
The Writings of Raoul Berger
Bibliography
Index of Cases
General Index
Raoul Berger’s original intention, if I may use that phrase in a different way than he does, was not to become a great constitutional historian. Indeed, his work as a scholar is actually the fourth (or fifth, depending on how you count) of the careers he has held during a long and illustrious lifetime.
His first love was and continues to be music. As a youth he studied the violin in New York and Berlin and then went on to make a number of highly praised concert tours, appear as a soloist with the Cleveland Symphony, and serve as second concertmaster with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and first violinist of the Cincinnati String Quartet. But it was difficult in the