Hacker, Louis, M. 1940. The Triumph of American Capitalism: The Development of Forces in American History to the End of the Nineteenth Century (New York: Simon and Schuster).
387: 14th Amendment, drawn up by congressional Joint Committee of Fifteen, of which Radicals dominated. Unlike other amendments contained more than 1 proposition. Section 1 was much like old Civil Rights Law, but it contained a clause "nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty or property without due process of law; nor deny any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws." Roscoe Conkling, a member of Joint Committee, said that law was intended to protect property rights against state legislatures, thus purposely written "due process" and "equal protection". see Graham, H. J. "The 'Conspiracy Theory' of the Fourteenth Amendment." Yale Law Journal, vol. xlvii (1938), p. 171-94.
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