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The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution

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The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution - Foner, Eric
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The Declaration of Independence announced equality as an American ideal but it took the Civil War and the adoption of three constitutional amendments to establish that ideal as law. The Reconstruction amendments abolished slavery, guaranteed due process and the equal protection of the law, and equipped black men with the right to vote. By grafting the principle of equality onto the Constitution, the amendments marked the second founding of the United States. Eric Foner conveys the dramatic origins of these revolutionary ...

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The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution 2020, W. W. Norton & Company

ISBN-13: 9780393358520

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The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution 2019, W. W. Norton & Company

ISBN-13: 9780393652574

Hardcover