Add to ORKGThe years immediately following the end of the American Civil War proved to be the high water mark in the nationalist spirit that provided for the direct federal protection of civil rights. This period was short, and as Southern patience outlasted Northern zeal, the federal government abandoned its efforts to actively enforce the spirit of the Reconstruction amendments. Even though during Reconstruction Congress greatly expanded the jurisdiction of the federal court system, the grants of jurisdiction did not help protect civil rights. Most of the statutes were civil in nature, requiring a litigant to hire a lawyer. Prospective plaintiffs in civil rights cases were unable to shoulder the expense of civil rights lawsuits so early use of the s...
Federal laws that regulate state institutions give rise to what the Supreme Court has described as t...
Congress regularly, and with increasing frequency, removes jurisdiction from the federal courts. Thi...
This landmark work of Constitutional and legal history is the leading account of the ways in which f...
For the first time in sixty years, the Supreme Court in Georgia v. Rachel and City of Greenwood v. P...
The long-term security of civil liberties in the United States must in the end depend upon the spiri...
The Supreme Court recently limited Congress’s ability to pass civil rights statutes for the protecti...
Since their birth during Reconstruction, the thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth amendments have be...
Modern doctrine has not been faithful to the text, history, and structure of the Thirteenth, Fourtee...
The Slaughter-House Cases have a bad reputation for good reason. Justice Miller’s narrow reading of ...
The Supreme Court recently limited Congress\u27s ability to pass civil rights statutes for the prote...
The very substantial literature on the scope of congressional power to strip courts of jurisdiction ...
This study finds that Congress removes court jurisdiction, and does so with increasing frequency ove...
A large body of academic scholarship accuses the Rehnquist Court of undoing the Second Reconstructi...
Abstract: Positive political theory models predict that Congress removes jurisdiction strategically ...
The years 1873-1883 form perhaps the most important decade in United States constitutional history. ...
Federal laws that regulate state institutions give rise to what the Supreme Court has described as t...
Congress regularly, and with increasing frequency, removes jurisdiction from the federal courts. Thi...
This landmark work of Constitutional and legal history is the leading account of the ways in which f...
For the first time in sixty years, the Supreme Court in Georgia v. Rachel and City of Greenwood v. P...
The long-term security of civil liberties in the United States must in the end depend upon the spiri...
The Supreme Court recently limited Congress’s ability to pass civil rights statutes for the protecti...
Since their birth during Reconstruction, the thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth amendments have be...
Modern doctrine has not been faithful to the text, history, and structure of the Thirteenth, Fourtee...
The Slaughter-House Cases have a bad reputation for good reason. Justice Miller’s narrow reading of ...
The Supreme Court recently limited Congress\u27s ability to pass civil rights statutes for the prote...
The very substantial literature on the scope of congressional power to strip courts of jurisdiction ...
This study finds that Congress removes court jurisdiction, and does so with increasing frequency ove...
A large body of academic scholarship accuses the Rehnquist Court of undoing the Second Reconstructi...
Abstract: Positive political theory models predict that Congress removes jurisdiction strategically ...
The years 1873-1883 form perhaps the most important decade in United States constitutional history. ...
Federal laws that regulate state institutions give rise to what the Supreme Court has described as t...
Congress regularly, and with increasing frequency, removes jurisdiction from the federal courts. Thi...
This landmark work of Constitutional and legal history is the leading account of the ways in which f...