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Originalism and the Other Desegregation Decision
Ryan C. Williams
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
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Williams, Ryan C., "Originalism and the Other Desegregation Decision" (2012). Faculty Scholarship at Penn
Law. 429.
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Forthcoming, 99 VA. L. REV. __ (2013)
ORIGINALISM AND THE OTHER DESEGREGATION
DECISION
Ryan C. Williams
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Introduction ............................................................................................................. 2
I. Constitutional “Citizenship” Before the Fourteenth Amendment ................... 10
A. Republican “Citizenship” and Equality in Early America .......................... 10
B. The Problem of Free Black Citizenship ...................................................... 12
1. The Uncertain Status of United States Citizenship Under the
Constitution of 1787 .......................................................................... 12
2. The Missouri Controversy and the Emergence of Free Black
Citizenship as a National Political Issue ........................................... 15
3. Legal Theories of Free Black Citizenship ......................................