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Preserving the Constitution : essays on politics and the Constitution in the reconstruction era./
Americans' ideas about constitutional liberty played a crucial role in the history of Reconstruction. They provided the basis for the Republican program of equal rights; ironically, they also set the limits to that program and reduced the prospects for its success. Americans were as concerned w...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York : London :
Fordham University Press ; Eurospan [distributor],
2006.
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| Colección: | Reconstructing America (Series) ;
no. 11. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preserving the Constitution : the conservative basis of radical reconstruction
- The rout of radicalism : Republicans and the elections of 1867
- A new look at the impeachment of Andrew Johnson
- The party, going strong : Congress and elections in the mid-nineteenth century
- Factionalism and representation : some insight from the nineteenth-century United States
- The politics of reconstruction
- Salmon P. Chase and constitutional politics
- The problem of constitutionalism and constitutional liberty in the reconstruction South
- Reform Republicans and the retreat from reconstruction
- Southern Democrats in the crisis of 1876-77 : a reconsideration of reunion and reaction.