The Judicial Holy Grail : Why the Supreme Court Should Not Revisit the Privileges or Immunities Clause

Should the Privileges or Immunities Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment now be revisited 147 years after the amendment was ratified, followed five years afterwards by a Supreme Court decision whose interpretation of the clause has persisted since then?[1] Just as the Slaughterhouse Cases decision has persisted, so has the controversy surrounding it.

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