Equity and the Constitution : the Supreme Court, equitable relief, and public policy

Introduction: From equitable relief to public policy

1. The foundations of American equit: Antecedents to 1792

The jurisprudentail foundations

The constitution and the American idea of equity

2. The tranformation of American Equity: 1792-1954

The constitution and the common law in the early republic

The constitution and the common law in the early republic

Joseph Story's "science" of equity

Procedure over substance: The codificatoin movement and the transformation of American equity

3. The constitution and the new equity

The emergence of sociological equity: The school desegregation cases

The descendants of Brown: The perpetuation of a bad idea

Epilogue: Towar a recovery of the past