Constitutional Law

CAC's Kendall On Restoring Constitution's Fourteenth Amendment

The Privileges or Immunities Clause of the Constitution’s 14th Amendment was intended to be the “vehicle by which we protect substantive rights and liberties,” said Doug Kendall in an interview with ACS. Kendall, founder and president of the Constitutional Accountability Center, maintained in his interview following a recent event, co-hosted by ACS, on the Reconstruction or Civil War amendments, that the clause was “written out of the document in 1873 [by the Supreme Court], causing a real problem in the way we talk about the Constitution today.” Kendall also noted his organization’s new report, “The Gem of the Constitution,” which provides a history of the Privileges or Immunities Clause and how it can still be restored. Watch his interview by clicking the picture below.

Full post as published by ACS Blog on January 23, 2009 (boomark / email).