Conscience and the Constitution : History, Theory, and Law of the Reconstruction Amendments

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At stage center of the American drama, maintains David A.J. Richards, is the attempt to understand the implications of the Reconstruction Amendments--Amendments Thirteen, Fourteen, and Fifteen to the United States Constitution. Richards evaluates previous efforts to interpret the amendments and then...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Richards, David A. J.
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2014.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
United States. > Constitution. > 13th-15th Amendments.
Constitution (United States)
Civil rights.
Abolitionists.
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > Judicial Branch.
LAW > Legal Services.
LAW > Civil Procedure.
LAW > Public.
LAW > Constitutional.
Abolitionnistes > États-Unis.
Droits de l'homme > États-Unis > Histoire.
Abolitionists > United States.
Civil rights > United States > History.
United States.
History.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
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Résumé:At stage center of the American drama, maintains David A.J. Richards, is the attempt to understand the implications of the Reconstruction Amendments--Amendments Thirteen, Fourteen, and Fifteen to the United States Constitution. Richards evaluates previous efforts to interpret the amendments and then proposes his own view: together the amendments embodied a self-conscious rebirth of America's revolutionary, rights-based constitutionalism. Building on an approach to constitutional law developed in his Toleration and the Constitution and Foundations of American Constitutionalism.
Description matérielle:1 online resource (316 pages).
ISBN:9781400863563

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