Fundamental Rights: History of a Constitutional DoctrineRoutledge, 12.07.2017 - 182 Seiten One of the most important modern developments in American constitutional law has been the extension of the Bill of Rights to the states. The most important guarantees of the first eight amendments have been incorporated into the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, along with the doctrine that these are rights that are so "fundamental" that any restriction is subject to judicial "strict scrutiny." The process has nationalized fundamental rights, giving them a preferred dignity and majesty. In this volume, the renowned constitutional scholar, Milton Konvitz, traces the development of fundamental rights from the early days of American jurisprudence through twentieth-century cases involving the right to privacy, racial discrimination, voting rights, censorship, and abortion laws. In Konvitz's astute view, the Bill of Rights in the Constitution of the United States, like the Ten Commandments, places no priority among protected or guaranteed rights. He argues that values, ideals, rights, liberties, and privileges need to be placed in a hierarchical order or scale. The Supreme Court, acting on a case-by-case basis, has slowly and cautiously moved to designate some rights as superior to others. This idea that some rights are of a "fundamental" nature, while others are not, can be traced back to the early days of the nation's government. Konvitz shows that there may be said to be not one, but two or even three bills of rights, one for the Federal government and one for the States. Still another, may be an unwritten but evolving Bill of Rights. The Court has recognized rights or liberties that are in no written constitution, as for example, a right to marry, a right to have a family, a right to choose education of one's children in a private, even a religious, school, rather than a public school. In an illuminating fashion, Konvitz, whose writings have been cited in Supreme Court decisions, traces the controversial and very uneven line of development of |
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... term '“liberty” as the word is used in the constitutional phrase “life, liberty and property.” As far as I know, the detailed history of this constitutional development has not been heretofore told. I think that it is eminently worth ...
... liberty of conscience.” He did not speak in such superlative terms of other guarantees, although willing to provide for them in the amendments.26. V. The first attempt by a Justice of the Supreme Court to formulate explicitly the idea of ...
... liberty, ... and to pursue and obtain happiness and safety.” He thus used the broadest possible terms, words into which one may be free to read specific rights essential to life, liberty, and happiness, like those enumerated in the Bill ...
... liberty of conscience.... “These, to Madison, were the most important, the ... liberty of the people. Commenting on this presentation by Madison, Irving ... words, “Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of the press,” than ...
... liberties guaranteed by the Bill of Rights and other rights as well, could be tested, and accepted or rejected as fundamental. If fundamental, then they could be read into the concept of “liberty” as this term is used in the Due Process ...
Inhalt
Every Right and Privilege Belonging to a Freeman | |
A Bill of Fundamental Rights | |
Where Do We Find Fundamental Rights? | |
Are There Two Bills of Rights? | |
Liberty Beyond the Bill of Rights | |
Fundamental Rights and Judicial Review | |
Conclusion | |
Index of Cases | |
Index of Supreme Court Justices Index | |
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