Books by Kenneth L. Karst

Winner of two prizes in 1990, this book shows how American law has both reflected and defined what it means to be American. The author looks at the ideal of equal citizenship and how it developed and also at the psychological impact of discrimination on those who have been its victims.

In this text, a constitutional law scholar argues that most of the social issues agenda for law violates the constitutional principle of equal citizenship. The conservative "social issues agenda" is targeted at voters who have felt left out by other civil rights movements.