Congress and the Fourteenth Amendment : Enforcing Liberty and Equality in the States 9780739185742, 9780739185735

The discrepancy between the fourteenth amendment’s true meaning as originally understood, and the Supreme Court’s interp

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Congress and the Fourteenth Amendment : Enforcing Liberty and Equality in the States
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The principle of equality embedded in the Declaration of Independence and reaffirmed in the Constitution does not distin

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In Enforcing Equality, Rebecca E. Zietlow assesses Congress's historical role in interpreting the Constitution and

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Alexis de Tocqueville, one of the greatest commentators on the American political tradition, viewed it through the lens

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Discusses the historical background of the Fourteenth Amendment, and argues that it has been unfairly used to encroach o

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Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. Paul Spicker's new book takes the three founding principles of the Fr

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