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Enforcing the Equal Protection Clause : Congressional Power, Judicial Doctrine, and Constitutional Law /
For over a century, Congress's power to enforce the Fourteenth Amendment's guarantee of "the equal protection of the laws" has presented judges and scholars with a puzzle. What does it mean for Congress to "enforce" such a wide-ranging, open-ended provision when the Sup...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, NY :
New York University Press,
[2016]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- PREFACE. Introducing the Enforcement Power
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- Introduction: Why the Enforcement Power, and Why Now?
- PART I. How We Got Here: A Brief History of Equal Protection and the Enforcement Power
- 1. Equal Protection before the Modern Era
- 2. The Rise and Fall of Carolene Products
- 3. A Historical Introduction to the Enforcement Power
- PART II. Where We Are Now: The Enforcement Power in Today's Court
- 4. The Modern Enforcement Power: Principles and Paradoxes
- 5. Constitutional Law and Legislative Policy
- PART III. What to Do about It: Constructing a Modern Enforcement Power
- 6. Refocusing Congruence and Proportionality
- 7. The Deference Question
- 8. An Aside on State Action
- PART IV. Applying the Fix: Equal Protection and Beyond
- 9. Irrationality, Animus, and Deference
- 10. Beyond Irrationality and Animus: The Enforcement Power in Other Contexts
- Conclusion: An Enforcement Power for a Twenty-First- Century Constitutional Democracy
- NOTES
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX
- ABOUT THE AUTHOR