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Apr. 24, 2009
The Gamble That Redefined the Fourteenth Amendment
"A Class Apart: A Mexican American Civil Rights Story" illuminates the history and innovative legal theory behind a landmark Supreme Court case, writes Elaine Elinson.
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By Elaine Elinson When Carlos Cadena told the justices of the U.S. Supreme Court that the petitioner he was representing in Hernandez v. Texas, was a U.S. citizen of Mexican dissent, Justice Felix Frankfurter responded, "They call them greasers down there, don't they?" The year was 1954, and Hernandez was the first case dealing with the rights of Mexican-Americans to be brought before the high court. Moreover, Ca...For only $95 a month (the price of 2 article purchases)
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