Dehors the Record: A Correction of a Final Jeopardy Question

Abstract

I am a loyal fan of the Jeopardy television game show. It is a daily ritual of mine. I am one of those people who sometimes shouts out the answers at the television, to everyone's annoyance. I also am a law professor, however, who has been teaching constitutional law for four decades. Imagine my professor's dismay and viewer's ambivalence when the two-day championship match ended in a Final Jeopardy category called “Constitutional Amendment Math” that included a mistake of substantive constitutional law. This essay corrects that error dehors the record.

Keywords: Incorporation doctrine, fourteenth amendment, due process clause, constitutional law

JEL Classification: K10