Enforcing equality
Subtitle: Congress, the Constitution, and the protection of individual rights
By: Rebecca E. Zietlow.
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 265
Subjects: United States. -- Congress; Equality before the law -- United States; Civil rights -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-252) and index.
Table of contents: title: Congress and rights before the Civil War; title: Belonging, protection, and equality : the Reconstruction Congress; title: Belonging and social citizenship : the New Deal and the Wagner Act; title: To secure these rights : the 1964 Civil Rights Act; title: The new parity debate; title: Rights of belonging and popular constitutionalism; title: Considering rights of belonging, moral values, and community.