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 proposes his own view: together the amendments e

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"Legal theorists and jurists seek clear answers, and Richards's volume provides a compelling one because of his broad, humanistic, interdisciplinary approach."--American Historical Review