If you’ve already started reading today’s majority opinion overturning Roe v. Wade, you’ll notice that it relies heavily on the Court’s previous interpretation of the 14th Amendment, making frequent references to ‘substantive due process, and the ‘concept of ordered liberty.’
Confused about those last two? You’re supposed to be. (The first is, technically, an oxymoron. The second, like a cup, is useful because of its emptiness.) But if you take a short detour and read my book XIV: How the Fourteenth Amendment Ate the First Ten (now available on Amazon), you’ll be in a much better position to make sense of the arguments being presented. And to understand a lot of other constitutional questions that have probably been puzzling you for years.
It’s a short read — basically the transcript of a 40-minute talk that I’ve given a few times — but it would be time well spent, I think.
