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UNINA9910452412203321 |
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Glidden William B |
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Congress and the Fourteenth Amendment : enforcing liberty and equality in the states / / William B. Glidden |
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Lanham, Maryland : , : Lexington Books, , [2013] |
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©2013 |
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1-4985-1534-7 |
0-7391-8574-8 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (189 p.) |
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Civil rights - United States |
Federal government - United States |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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An overview of the post-Civil War constitutional amendments -- The Thirteenth Amendment and the 1866 Civil Rights Act -- The original meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment -- Applying constitutional rules for governance over time -- The Supreme Court eviscerated the privileges or immunities clause and section five -- Congress, protective laws, and the court in the 20th century -- The judicial supremacy and state action doctrines should be removed from section five -- Section five should be restored to the Constitution in its full original meaning so Congress can protect our Fourteenth Amendment rights. |
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In Congress and the Fourteenth Amendment, William B. Glidden examines the misuse of the fourteenth amendment. The fourteenth amendment was created under the belief that states have the duty, and Congress the power by appropriate legislation, to protect people in their life, liberty, and property rights. Instead, the Supreme Court has insisted that Congress cannot regulate private conduct because the amendment only applies to actions of the states, and Congress cannot regulate state conduct because only the Court can decide what |
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UNINA9910784496703321 |
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Questions of modernity [[electronic resource] /] / Timothy Mitchell, editor |
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Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2000 |
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1 online resource (258 p.) |
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Collana |
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Contradictions of modernity ; ; v. 11 |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Civilization, Modern |
Developing countries Social conditions |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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The stage of modernity / Timothy Mitchell -- Two poets and death : on civil and political society in the non-Christian world / Partha Chatterjee -- Witness to suffering : domestic cruelty and the birth of the modern subject in Bengal / Dipesh Chakrabarty -- Modern subjects : Egyptian melodrama and postcolonial difference / Lila Abu-Lughod -- The thin line of modernity : some Moroccan debates on subjectivity / Stefania Pandolfo -- The sovereignty of history : culture and modernity in the cinema of Satyajit Ray / Nicholas B. Dirks -- The making of modernity : gender and time in Indian cinema / Veena Das -- Body politic in colonial India / Gyan Prakash. |
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Modernity has always laid claim to universal certainty-which meant assigning a different and lesser significance to anything deemed purely local, non-Western, or lacking a universal expression. Focusing on the making of modernity outside the West, eight leading anthropologists, historians, and political theorists explore the production of new forms of politics, sensibility, temporality, and selfhood in locations ranging from nineteenth-century Bengal to contemporary Morocco. |
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