The Constitutional Origins of the American Civil War - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Constitutional Origins of the American Civil War write by Michael F. Conlin. This book was released on 2019-07-18. The Constitutional Origins of the American Civil War available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Demonstrates the crucial role that the Constitution played in the coming of the Civil War.
The Broken Constitution
The Broken Constitution - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Broken Constitution write by Noah Feldman. This book was released on 2021-11-02. The Broken Constitution available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice An innovative account of Abraham Lincoln, constitutional thinker and doer Abraham Lincoln is justly revered for his brilliance, compassion, humor, and rededication of the United States to achieving liberty and justice for all. He led the nation into a bloody civil war to uphold the system of government established by the US Constitution—a system he regarded as the “last best hope of mankind.” But how did Lincoln understand the Constitution? In this groundbreaking study, Noah Feldman argues that Lincoln deliberately and recurrently violated the United States’ founding arrangements. When he came to power, it was widely believed that the federal government could not use armed force to prevent a state from seceding. It was also assumed that basic civil liberties could be suspended in a rebellion by Congress but not by the president, and that the federal government had no authority over slavery in states where it existed. As president, Lincoln broke decisively with all these precedents, and effectively rewrote the Constitution’s place in the American system. Before the Civil War, the Constitution was best understood as a compromise pact—a rough and ready deal between states that allowed the Union to form and function. After Lincoln, the Constitution came to be seen as a sacred text—a transcendent statement of the nation’s highest ideals. The Broken Constitution is the first book to tell the story of how Lincoln broke the Constitution in order to remake it. To do so, it offers a riveting narrative of his constitutional choices and how he made them—and places Lincoln in the rich context of thinking of the time, from African American abolitionists to Lincoln’s Republican rivals and Secessionist ideologues. Includes 8 Pages of Black-and-White Illustrations
The Civil War and the Constitution, 1859-1865
The Civil War and the Constitution, 1859-1865 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Civil War and the Constitution, 1859-1865 write by John William Burgess. This book was released on 1901. The Civil War and the Constitution, 1859-1865 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution
The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution write by Eric Foner. This book was released on 2019-09-17. The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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. The 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.
The Civil War and the Constitution
The Civil War and the Constitution - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Civil War and the Constitution write by John W. Burgess. This book was released on 2019-03-12. The Civil War and the Constitution available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
