Suppose the Alabama legislature, responding to the will of the majority, decided to make Christianity the official religion of the state. Suppose the Texas legislature voted to deny to Texans the right to criticize the government. What if Kentucky required anyone running for...

The Slaughterhouse Cases: Regulation, Reconstruction, and the Fourteenth Amendment. By Ronald M. Labbé and Jonathan Lurie. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, c. 2003. Pp. xiv, 295. Paper, $15.95, ISBN 0-7006-1409-5; cloth, $34.95, ISBN 0-7006-1290-4.) The Fourteenth Amendment and the Law of the Constitution....

The 14th Amendment to the Constitution states that "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside." Today illegal immigrants abuse this amendment, with mothers crossing the border to give birth to "anchor babies," who automatically become U.S. citizens and enable their families to come into the country. The abuse has grown to the point that automatic birthright citize