14th Amendment

[Tom Lehman]

"Three Justices of the Supreme Court who ruled in support of Santa Clara had ties to
Ohio.  They were Chief Justice Morrison Waite from Toledo, William Woods of Newark, and
Stanley Matthews from Cincinnati.  Prior to serving on the Supreme Court, Waite had been
the attorney for several large railroad corporations while Matthews had been an attorney
for the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton railroad corporation."
---Citizens Over Corporations p.34, Ohio Program on Corporations Law and Democracy,
editiors, 1999.

Mike, just the tip of the iceberg and not over-stated.

Michael Perelman wrote:


> Here is what I have from Hacker.
>
> 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.
>
> --
>
> Michael Perelman
> Economics Department
> California State University
> michael at ecst.csuchico.edu
> Chico, CA 95929
> 530-898-5321
> fax 530-898-5901
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