First Class Reading Assigments (Text refers to Chemerinsky, Constitutional Law, 5th Ed)

1. The History & Theory of the 14th Amendment

i. Garrett Epps, The Antebellum Political Background of the Fourteenth Amendment (attached)

ii. Robert Cover, The Origins of Judicial Activism (attached)

iii. Text, pp. 756-59 (Dred Scott), Strauder v. West Virginia (attached)