UCF sociology\u00a0doctoral student Donna King recently published “The War on Women\u2019s Fundamental Rights: Connecting U.S. Supreme Court Originalism to Rightwing, Conservative Extremism in American Politics” in the\u00a0Yeshiva University\u00a0Cardozo Journal of Law & Gender.<\/p>\n
Here is an excerpt from the introduction:<\/p>\n
“[The Fourteenth] Amendment, first proposed in 1866 and declared ratified in 1868, plays a monumental role in the politics and law of modern America.”<\/p>\n
There is an expanding social and economic movement in America today that thrives on the devaluation of the unenumerated fundamental rights protected under the Privileges or Immunities Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution.<\/p>\n
The ideological belief system, upon which this antigovernment movement is founded, is indicative of an aristocratic way of thinking that has historically been supported by the U.S. Supreme Court’s precedent of completely rejecting the Reconstruction era and the intentions of its Framers.<\/p>\n