Background
Lofgren, Charles Augustin was born on September 8, 1939 in Missoula, Montana, United States. S. Cornelius Willard and Helen Mary (Augustin) L. Married Jennifer Jenkins Wood, August 6, 1986.
(In 1787 Alexander Hamilton wrote that Americans had the o...)
In 1787 Alexander Hamilton wrote that Americans had the opportunity to demonstrate "whether societies of men are really capable or not of establishing good government from reflection or choice, or whether they are forever destined to depend for their political constitutions on accident and force." These essays explore six issues in constitutional framing and interpretation that have compelled Americans to confront Hamilton's bold challenge. The first three essays focus on the Founding period, examining the original understanding of war-making powers, compulsory military service under the Constitution, and the origins of the Tenth Amendment. The remaining three essays unfold 20th-century episodes, including Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes's denial in Missouri v. Holland that the Tenth Amendment limits the treaty power, erroneous claims for presidential authority in the Curtiss-Wright case, and Harry S. Truman's "police action" in Korea. Closely analyzing the debates of the Founders and their successors, Lofgren offers a wide ranging evaluation of the American constitutional experiment and makes a vital contribution to informed public debate in the present.
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In 1896 the U.S. Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson upheld "equal but separate accommodations for the white and colored races" on all passenger railways within the state of Louisiana. In this account with implications for present-day America, Lofgren traces the roots of this landmark case in the post-Civil War South and pinpoints its moorings in the era's constitutional, legal, and intellectual doctrines. After reviewing de facto racial separation and the shift by southern states to legislated transportation segregation, he shows that the Fourteenth Amendment became a ready vehicle for legitimating classification by race. At the same time, scientists and social scientists were proclaiming black racial inferiority and lower courts were embracing separate-but-equal in ordinary law suits. Within this context, a group of New Orleans blacks launched a judicial challenge to Louisiana's 1890 Separate Car Law and carried the case to the Supreme Court, where the resulting opinions by Justices Henry Billings Brown and John Marshall Harlan pitted legal doctrines and "expert" opinion about race against the idea of a color-blind Constitution. Throughout his account, Lofgren probes the intellectual premises that shaped this important episode in the history of law and race in America--an episode that still raises troubling questions about racial classification and citizenship--revealing its dynamics and place in the continuum of legal change.
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Lofgren, Charles Augustin was born on September 8, 1939 in Missoula, Montana, United States. S. Cornelius Willard and Helen Mary (Augustin) L. Married Jennifer Jenkins Wood, August 6, 1986.
Bachelor of Arts with great distinction, Stanford University, 1961, Department of Administration and Management, 1962, Doctor of Philosophy, 1966.
Instructor history San Jose State College, 1965-1966. Assistant professor Claremont McKenna College, 1966-1971. Associate professor, 1971-1976.
Professor, since 1976. Professor American history and politics, since 1976.
(In 1787 Alexander Hamilton wrote that Americans had the o...)
(In 1896 the U.S. Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson up...)
Served with United States Army Reserve, 1957-1963. Member American Society Legal History, Organization American Historians, American History Association.
Married Jennifer Jenkins Wood, August 6, 1986.