| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 94.3

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Book Review

Enforcing Equality: Congress, the Constitution, and the Protection of Individual Rights. By Rebecca E. Zietlow. (New York: New York University Press, 2006. xii, 265 pp. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-8147-9707-5.)
In Enforcing Equality, Rebecca E. Zietlow, a law professor at the University of Toledo, uses history and political science to make an argument about legal policy. The result of this ambitious interdisciplinary effort, although sometimes fascinating, is not entirely persuasive. Furthermore, the quality of the chapters, relying as they do on different methodological approaches, varies enormously.	1
Zietlow seeks to make an argument about how "rights of belonging" ought to be enforced. According to her, "'Rights of belonging' are those rights that promote an inclusive vision of who belongs to the national community of the United States and that facilitate membership in that community" (p. 8). The concept is one she and her frequent collaborator, Denise Morgan, invented. Zietlow contends that such rights are best enforced not by courts but by legislatures, especially the U.S. Congress.	. . .

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