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ISBN10: 0823225534, ISBN13: 9780823225538, [publisher: Fordham University Press, New York, NY] Hardcover Green cloth boards with silver lettering on spine. No dust jacket. Book is gently used with only minor wear. Tightly bound copy with clean interior having no markings, writing, underlining, or highlighting in margins or text block. Inv. # 7595. [Waynesboro, VA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2006]
ISBN10: 0823225534, ISBN13: 9780823225538, [publisher: FORDHAM UNIV PR] Hardcover Finally available in one volume, these ten classic essays by a leading scholar track the way key political, factional, and legal struggles, shaped by popular commitment to constitutional principles, affected the framing, interpretation, and enforcement of . [Greven, Germany] [Publication Year: 2006]
ISBN10: 0823225534, ISBN13: 9780823225538, [publisher: FORDHAM UNIV PR] Hardcover Finally available in one volume, these ten classic essays by a leading scholar track the way key political, factional, and legal struggles, shaped by popular commitment to constitutional principles, affected the framing, interpretation, and enforcement of . [Greven, Germany] [Publication Year: 2006]
ISBN10: 0823225534, ISBN13: 9780823225538, [publisher: Fordham University Press, New York] Hardcover Hardcover. "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 with preserving the Constitution as they were with changing it to protect liberty and equal rights. These two commitments were in profound tension. The question was how one could change the constitutional system to fulfill the promise of the Declaration of Independence-to entrench a republic dedicated to liberty instead of slavery-and yet preserve the essentials of federalism and local democracy. Almost 150 years later we still struggle with these problems."-Michael Les Benedict, from the IntroductionHistorians and legal scholars continue to confront the failure of Reconstruction, exploring the interaction of pervasive racism with widespread commitments to freedom and equality. In this important book, one of America's leading historians confronts the constitutional politics of the period from the end of the CivilWar until 1877. Benedict updates ten of his classic essays that explore the way Republicans tried to replace the slaveholding republic with a nation dedicated to freedom and equality of basic legal and political rights-and how Americans&apos ...
ISBN10: 0823225534, ISBN13: 9780823225538, [publisher: Fordham University Press] Hardcover Finally available in one volume, these ten classic essays by a leading scholar track the way key political, factional, and legal struggles, shaped by popular commitment to constitutional principles, affected the framing, interpretation, and enforcement of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments. With a major introduction and updates throughout. Series: Reconstructing America. Num Pages: 316 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; JP. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 155 x 27. Weight in Grams: 579. . 2006. Hardback. . . . . [Galway, GY, Ireland] [Publication Year: 2006]
ISBN10: 0823225534, ISBN13: 9780823225538, [publisher: Fordham University Press] Hardcover Finally available in one volume, these ten classic essays by a leading scholar track the way key political, factional, and legal struggles, shaped by popular commitment to constitutional principles, affected the framing, interpretation, and enforcement of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments. With a major introduction and updates throughout. Series: Reconstructing America. Num Pages: 316 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; JP. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 155 x 27. Weight in Grams: 579. . 2006. Hardback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. [Olney, MD, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2006]
ISBN10: 0823225534, ISBN13: 9780823225538, [publisher: Fordham University Press] Hardcover New [liverpool, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2006]
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