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Process Theory and Emerging Thirteenth Amendment Jurisprudence: The Case of Agricultural Guestworkers

Date

2016

Auteurs

Benjamin P. Quest

Résumé

A Resurgence of Constitutional scholarship on the Thirteenth Amendment has been emerging since the 1950s. In 1951, Jacobus tenBroek argued that courts could construe the Constitution's ban on slavery as not only an attack upon compulsory servitude but also as an assault on the harms and legacies associated with slavery. The Supreme Court adopted this view a decade later and held that the Thirteenth Amendment authortized Congress to eliminate purely private acts of racial discrimination in housing sales as a legacy of slavery...
Process theory interprets the Constitution as mainly providing procedural mandates rather than enumerating substantive rights. Although the theory is commonly associated with judicial review, this Commetn advocates its used as a congressional guide to identify and limit those situations calling for legislative action under Section Two of the Thirteenth Amendment. Instead of asking whether a fundamental right is at stake, process theory inquires whether the underlying procedures giving rise to legal relationships are fair.

Number of pages

233-260

Université

University of San Francisco

Département académique

School of Law

Niveau

Law

Lieu de publication

University of San Francisco Law Review

Fichiers joints

Liens

Secteurs économiques

General relevance - all sectors

Types de contenu

Policy analysis et Current Policy

Sphères d’activité

Histoire et Droit

Langues

Anglais