Enforcing Equality: Congress, the Constitution, and the Protection of Individual Rights

by RebeccaE.Zietlow (Author)

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  2006

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  Assesses Congress's historical role in interpreting the Constitution and protecting the individual rights of citizens, challenging conventional wisdom that courts, not legislatures, are best suited for this role. This work examines three historical eras: Reconstruction, the New Deal era, and Civil Rights era of the 1960s.