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Enforcing equality : Congress, the Constitution, and the protection of individual rights /
In Enforcing Equality, Rebecca E. Zietlow assesses Congress's historical role in interpreting the Constitution and protecting the individual rights of citizens, provocatively challenging conventional wisdom that courts, not legislatures, are best suited for this role. Specifically focusing on w...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
New York University Press,
©2006.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | In Enforcing Equality, Rebecca E. Zietlow assesses Congress's historical role in interpreting the Constitution and protecting the individual rights of citizens, provocatively challenging conventional wisdom that courts, not legislatures, are best suited for this role. Specifically focusing on what she calls "rights of belonging"--A set of positive entitlements that are necessary to ensure inclusion, participation, and equal membership in diverse communities--Zietlow examines three historical eras: Reconstruction, the New Deal era, and Civil Rights era of the 1960s. She reveals that in these key |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xi, 265 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-252) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781429486132 1429486139 9780814797075 0814797075 9780814789001 0814789005 |