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Going Back to Reconstruction

By Rebecca Zietlow

At a constitutional law conference that I recently attended, a friend of mine commented, “We always seem to go back to Reconstruction.”  I agreed.  For many of us, Reconstruction was the Second Founding, when the People repaired the pro-slavery constitution and replaced it with one that commits the federal government to protecting individual rights. The Reconstruction era [...]

Full post as published by Essentially Contested America on September 26, 2008 (boomark / email).