{"product_id":"enforcing-the-equal-protection-clause-william-d-araiza-9781479859702","title":"Enforcing the Equal Protection Clause: Congressional Power, Judicial Doctrine, and Constitutional Law","description":"\u003cp\u003eFor over a century, Congress's power to enforce the Fourteenth Amendment's guarantee of \"the equal protection of the laws\" has presented judges and scholars with a puzzle. What does it mean for Congress to \"enforce\" such a wide-ranging, open-ended provision when the Supreme Court has insisted on its own superiority in interpreting the Fourteenth Amendment? In Enforcing the Equal Protection Clause, William D. Araiza offers a unique understanding of Congress's enforcement power and its relationship to the Court's claim to supremacy when interpreting the Constitution. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDrawing on the history of American thinking about equality in the decades before and after the Civil War, Araiza argues that congressional enforcement and judicial supremacy can co-exist, but only if the Court limits its role to ensuring that enforcement legislation reasonably promotes the core meaning of the Equal Protection Clause. Much of the Court's equal protection jurisprudence stops short of stating such core meaning, thus leaving Congress free (subject to appropriate judicial checks) to enforce the full scope of the constitutional guarantee. Araiza's thesis reconciles the Supreme Court's ultimate role in interpreting the Constitution with Congress's superior capacity to transform the Fourteenth Amendment's majestic principles into living reality. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe Fourteenth Amendment's Enforcement Clause raises difficult issues of separation of powers, federalism, and constitutional rights. Araiza illuminates each of these in this scholarly, timely work that is both intellectually rigorous but also accessible to non-specialist readers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e William D. Araiza\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1479859702\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781479859702\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New York University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/01\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 6.30h x 1.10w x 9.10d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/2016","brand":"William D. Araiza","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43935645466879,"sku":"9781479859702","price":65.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_861e500a-7b32-4e16-b25f-5320291c07a2.jpg?v=1681421015","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/enforcing-the-equal-protection-clause-william-d-araiza-9781479859702","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}