Enforcing equality [electronic resource] : Congress, the Constitution, and the protection of individual rights /

Zietlow, Rebecca E.

Enforcing equality Congress, the Constitution, and the protection of individual rights / [electronic resource] : Rebecca E. Zietlow. - New York : New York University Press, c2006. - xi, 265 p. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-252) and index.

Congress and rights before the civil war -- Belonging, protection and equality : the Reconstruction Congress -- Belonging and social citizenship : the New Deal and the Wagner Act -- To secure these rights : the 1964 Civil Rights Act -- The new parity debate -- Rights of belonging and popular constitutionalism -- Considering rights of belonging, moral values, and community.


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United States. Congress.


Equality before the law--United States.
Civil rights--United States.


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