Constitutional Law

Resource 6 . 3

31 minutes

Ex parte Young

Seth J. Chandler

1. Consider how the course of constitutional litigation would have changed if Justice Harlan had gotten his way. Is there anything short of a constitutional amendment that Congress could have enacted that would have preserved the ability of those deprived of a federal constitutional rights to use the federal courts to vindicate them?

 

Supreme Court of the United States

209 U.S. 123, 52 L. Ed. 714, 28 S. Ct. 441, SCDB 1907-162, 1908 U.S. LEXIS 1726

No. 10

1908-03-23

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