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The second founding : how the Civil War and Reconstruction remade the constitution

text The second founding : how the Civil War and Reconstruction remade the constitution

Summary

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning scholar comes a timely history of the constitutional changes that built equality into the nation's foundation and how those guarantees have been shaken over time.

Contents

Origins of the Second Founding -- What is Freedom?: The Thirteenth Amendment -- Toward Equality: The Fourteenth Amendment -- The Right to Vote: The Fifteenth Amendment -- Justice and Jurisprudence.

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Description
xxix, 224 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company 2019

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Woodmere (Main Branch) 342.73 FON in Adult Non-fiction Available

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