Böcker av Lynne Marie Chandler Garcia

This concerns what it means to be a person and the role the law plays inbestowing the status of person. The purpose of this dissertation is to further ourunderstanding of how courts in the U.S., and especially the U.S. Supreme Court, havedefined "person" as a legal construct within Constitutional law. In order to achieve this,court decisions concerning the personhood of key entities with a claim to personhood areanalyzed and compared in order to yield a more meaningful understanding of the word"person." The entities studied include slaves, corporations, fetuses, and higher-orderanimals.