The Second Founding
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The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution
By Eric Foner“Gripping and essential.”—Jesse Wegman, New York Times An authoritative history by the preeminent scholar of the Civil War era, The Second Founding traces the arc of the three foundational Reconstruction amendments from their origins ...
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The Second Founding: An Introduction to the Fourteenth Amendment
By Ilan WurmanThe book then traces how these concepts solved historical problems confronting framers of the Fourteenth Amendment, including the comity rights of free blacks, private violence and the denial of the protection of the laws, and the notorious ...
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The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution
By Eric FonerEric Foner's compact, insightful history traces the arc of these pivotal amendments from their dramatic origins in pre-Civil War mass meetings of African-American "colored citizens" and in Republican party politics to their virtual ...
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The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution
By Eric FonerEric Foner's compact, insightful history traces the arc of these pivotal amendments from their dramatic origins in pre-Civil War mass meetings of African-American "colored citizens" and in Republican party politics to their virtual ...
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The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution
By Eric FonerIn grafting the principle of equality onto the Constitution, these revolutionary changes marked the second founding of the United States.