Individual Rights Doctrines Generally

• Author: Charles D. Kelso; R. Randall Kelso
• Profession: Professors of Law
• Pages: 915-916

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Sub-Part One of Part IV of this book, Chapters 17-20, detailed the constitutional doctrines involving structural issues: judicial review, federalism, separation of powers, and checks and balances. The remainder of this book considers constitutional protections involving individual rights.

Sub-Part Two of Part IV, in Chapters 21-24, considers the general doctrines applied in judicial review of individual rights, including the protection given economic and non-economic rights by sources other than the First Amendment, Fifth Amendment Due Process Clause, and Civil War Amendments, that is, the 13^th, 14^th, and 15^th Amendments. These named provisions have triggered much litigation in our Nation's history, and thus require treatment in separate chapters.

Sub-Part Three of Part IV, Chapters 25-28, considers the Civil War Amendments, including the 14^th...