Equality Talk: Antisubordination and Anticlassification Values in Constitutional Struggles Over Brown
Equality Talk: Antisubordination and Anticlassification Values in Constitutional Struggles Over Brown
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平等谈话：布朗宪法斗争中的反从属和反分类价值观
DOI：
10.2307/4093259
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发表时间：
2004
影响因子：
3.4
通讯作者：
Reva B. Siegel
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作者：
Reva B. Siegel
当布朗诉教育委员会禁止公共教育中的种族隔离时，它就跨越20世纪下半叶的平等公民身份和联邦制的辩论发表了巨大的辩论。案件与冲突回荡，有关宪法的可能性和局限性的故事。本文以我们谈论决定的含义的方式探讨了宪法原则和宪法政治的关系。它表明，在强制执行布朗的冲突中，对布朗所搁置的原则的信念是如何产生的，并证明了这种冲突是如何在执行平等保护保证的学说中产生的间接和矛盾。通过重新审视有关布朗的早期论点，我们可以更好地描述塑造平等保护法发展的价值观和关注，并辩论那些可能影响其未来的人。同时，在我们的宪法承诺中探索宪法冲突的印象，邀请我们再次反思法院和国家彼此提出要求的方式，以提出有关法院如何提出宪法原则的问题生命将受到约束的人。今天，许多人知道布朗通过宣布宪法原则，即政府可能不会根据种族进行分类，从而结束了美国的种族隔离时代。司法和受欢迎的演讲者唤起了这种棕色，通常是棕色的。召唤瑟古德·马歇尔（Thurgood Marshall）的论点是布朗（Brown）的遗产
When Brown v. Board of EducationI prohibited racial segregation in public education, it inaugurated a great debate about equal citizenship and federalism that spanned the second half of the twentieth century. The case reverberates with conflict, with stories about the possibilities and limits of constitutional law. This Article explores the relation of constitutional principle and constitutional politics in the ways we talk about the decision's meaning. It shows how convictions about the principle on which Brown rests were forged in conflicts over enforcing Brown, and demonstrates how such conflicts have produced indirection and contradiction in doctrines that enforce the equal protection guarantee. By revisiting early arguments about Brown, we are better able to describe the values and concerns that have shaped the development of equal protection law, and to debate those that might shape its future. At the same time, exploring the impress of constitutional conflict in our constitutional commitments invites us to reflect again on the ways that the Court and the nation make claims on one another to ask questions about how the Court forges a constitutional principle that can compel the allegiance of the people whose lives it would constrain. Today, many understand Brown to have ended the era of segregation in America by declaring the constitutional principle that government may not classify on the basis of race. Judicial and popular speakers invoke this Brown, the anticlassification Brown, quite commonly.2 Most recently, the Brown that prohibits classification on the basis of race was prominently cited by proponents of a law that would have outlawed racial data collection by the State of California. Summoning Thurgood Marshall's arguments in Brown, the legacy of Mar-