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PublisherNorton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
ISBN-100393652572
ISBN-139780393652574
eBay Product ID (ePID)20038314760
Product Key Features
Book TitleSecond Founding : How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution
Number of Pages256 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2019
TopicAmerican Government / Legislative Branch, United States / 19th Century, Constitutions, United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877)
IllustratorYes
GenrePolitical Science, History
AuthorEric Foner
FormatHardcover
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Item Height0.1 in
Item Weight18 Oz
Item Length1 in
Item Width0.6 in
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Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2019-014793
TitleLeadingThe
ReviewsFew reading experiences on the history of race in America have been as profound for me as the works of Eric Foner., Eric Foner has done it again: his concise, superbly researched, beautifully written history of the Civil War amendments chronicles a revolution in law and moral sensibility., How are voter suppression, mass incarceration, and jeopardy to the American-born children of undocumented immigrants possible in the land of the free? Eric Foner brings his masterful knowledge of Reconstruction to illuminate the transformative constitutional amendments following the Civil War, and powerfully conveys the ongoing struggles over their meaning.
Dewey Edition23
Dewey Decimal342.7303
SynopsisThe Declaration of Independence announced equality as an American ideal, but it took the Civil War and the subsequent adoption of three constitutional amendments to establish that ideal as American law. The Reconstruction amendments abolished slavery, guaranteed all persons due process and equal protection of the law, and equipped black men with the right to vote. They established the principle of birthright citizenship and guaranteed the privileges and immunities of all citizens. The federal government, not the states, was charged with enforcement, reversing the priority of the original Constitution and the Bill of Rights. In grafting the principle of equality onto the Constitution, these revolutionary changes marked the second founding of the United States. Eric Foner's compact, insightful history traces the arc of these pivotal amendments from their dramatic origins in pre-Civil War mass meetings of African-American "colored citizens" and in Republican party politics to their virtual nullification in the late nineteenth century. A series of momentous decisions by the Supreme Court narrowed the rights guaranteed in the amendments, while the states actively undermined them. The Jim Crow system was the result. Again today there are serious political challenges to birthright citizenship, voting rights, due process, and equal protection of the law. Like all great works of history, this one informs our understanding of the present as well as the past: knowledge and vigilance are always necessary to secure our basic rights., 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., From the Pulitzer Prize-winning scholar, a timely history of the constitutional changes that built equality into the nation's foundation and how those guarantees have been shaken over time.
LC Classification NumberKF4541.F68 2019
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- 19. Aug. 2020
E-BOOK ALERT!!
This is an E-BOOK!! Do not purchase this if you are unable to read for long periods on a screen. In all ways it lookalike you are purchasing a real book. They even charge tax. It's a scam. You do nat get a book. You get nothingBestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
- 08. Aug. 2024
3 Ammendments that changed our world.
Love to learn about the history of American progress toward equality and justice.Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
