Enforcing equality Congress, the Constitution, and the protection of individual rights
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.