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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 t...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York ; London :
New York University Press,
[2015]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Equal protection before the modern era
- The rise and fall of Carolene Products
- A historical introduction to the enforcement power
- Where we are now: the enforcement power in today's court
- The modern enforcement power: principles and paradoxes
- Constitutional law and legislative policy
- What to do about it: constructing a modern enforcement power
- Refocusing congruence and proportionality
- The deference question
- An aside on state action
- Applying the fix: equal protection and beyond
- Irrationality, animus, and deference
- Beyond irrationality and animus: the enforcement power in other contexts
- Conclusion: an enforcement power for a Twenty-First-century constitutional democracy.