{"id":28537,"date":"2019-07-15T10:56:09","date_gmt":"2019-07-15T15:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/law.marquette.edu\/facultyblog\/?p=28537"},"modified":"2019-07-16T07:20:48","modified_gmt":"2019-07-16T12:20:48","slug":"new-marquette-lawyer-magazine-sees-past-problems-as-shedding-light-on-future-challenges-post-1-of-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/law.marquette.edu\/facultyblog\/2019\/07\/new-marquette-lawyer-magazine-sees-past-problems-as-shedding-light-on-future-challenges-post-1-of-3\/","title":{"rendered":"New Marquette Lawyer Magazine Sees Past Problems as Shedding Light on Future Challenges (Post 1 of 3)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"ThisThe Summer 2019 issue of Marquette Lawyer<\/em><\/a> features three pairs of stories with an underlying common theme that can be summed up by one of the headlines: \u201cIn Search of Better Outcomes.\u201d This issue of the Marquette Law School semiannual magazine overall has a substantial historical orientation, but it also speaks strongly to current realities and issues\u2014as has become even clearer since the magazine hit the streets a few weeks ago. Simply put, learning about the past helps in understanding the present and considering the future. This post takes up one pair of articles: the cover story and a reaction to it.<\/p>\n

The cover story, \u201cDying Constitutionalism and the Fourteenth Amendment,\u201d is an edited version of the Robert F. Boden Lecture given at Marquette Law School in fall 2018, by Ernest A. Young, the Alston & Bird Professor at Duke Law School. While the Fourteenth Amendment later would be crucial to the growth of constitutional protections and the extension of civil rights\u2014the linchpin of America\u2019s \u201csecond founding,\u201d as it is sometimes called\u2014Young focuses on the first 75 years after the amendment was ratified in 1868. It was a period of broad suppression of civil rights, particularly those of African Americans\u2014the Fourteenth Amendment not working much to the contrary.<\/p>\n

Young\u2019s purpose is not so much historical as jurisprudential: He presents his essay as a cautionary tale about \u201cliving constitutionalism,\u201d demonstrating that, while that mode of constitutional interpretation was not the Court\u2019s stated approach in those 75 years, it could have been: For \u201cevery one <\/em>of [living constitutionalism\u2019s] modalities strongly supported the compromise or even abandonment of the amendment\u2019s core purpose of freedom and equality for black Americans.\u201d Simply stated, the history of the use of the amendment is a reminder that \u201csocial progress is not inevitable, that social forces can push constitutional meaning in bad as well as good directions, that living can turn into dying constitutionalism if we are not very, very careful,\u201d Young writes.<\/p>\n

In a comment on Young\u2019s lecture, David A. Strauss, Gerald Ratner Distinguished Service Professor of Law at the University of Chicago and author of The Living Constitution<\/em> (Oxford 2012), says that the early failures under the Fourteenth Amendment need to be reckoned with by those who are proponents of living constitutionalism. He writes that Young\u2019s lecture shows that \u201cin the end, there is only so much that the law can do to save a society from its own moral failings.\u201d<\/p>\n

A future post will discuss another pair of articles in the magazine that would support the same reaction. Click here to read both Young\u2019s lecture and Strauss\u2019s comment.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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