The 1964 Civil Rights Act Destroyed the 14th Amendment and Resurrected Status-based Law Paul Craig Roberts “From status to contract” was the way Sir Henry Maine described the emergence of equality before the law from the status-based law of the past when class distinctions determined rights. Today in the US and Great Britain race distinctions … Continue reading The 1964 Civil Rights Act Destroyed the 14th Amendment and Resurrected Status-based Law