The Southern ratification debate on the 14th Amendment was a part of the bitter, decade-long struggle to reconstruct and later redeem the South. This book makes clear that amidst all the conflict and cacophony of the period, the commands of the 14th Amendment were widely and uniformly understood. The three great clauses of Section 1 of the 14th Amendment were intended both to guarantee everyone the fundamental rights of citizenship and personhood and to nationalize the protection of those rights within the federal structure ordained by the Constitution. That means that the states were to retain primary responsibility for defining and protecting those rights, subject only to the requirement that they treat all fairly and equally. Rooted in the natural rights philosophy of the Declaration of Independence rather than in the text of the Bill of Rights, the commands of the 14th Amendment were intended to protect liberty in an inseparable union of states. This study lets the participants in these events speak for themselves: in official reports; in party platforms and campaign speeches; in resolutions from meetings, rallies, and conventions; in editorials and letters to the editor; and in private diaries and personal correspondence. Much of the documentary evidence in this book is being published for the first time.
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A major study of the ratification of the 14th Amendment, shedding new light on the meaning of the amendment.
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JAMES E. BOND is the Dean of and Professor at the School of Law at Seattle University.
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Fourteenth Amendment, South Carolina, United States, North Carolina, New Orleans, New York, Freedmen's Bureau, Raleigh Sentinel, Supreme Court, Declaration of Independence, President Johnson, Baton Rouge, Charleston Mercury, Daily Sun, The Scalawag, Alabama Politics, Macon Daily Telegraph, Reconstruction of Florida, Charleston Daily Courier, South Carolinians, Thirteenth Amendment, Charlottesville Chronicle, Declaration of Rights, Reconstruction Committee, Arkansas Daily Gazette New!
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- The Bill of Rights (Irvington Reprint Series in Political Science) by Hugo L. Black on 8 pages
- Reconstruction and Redemption in the South by Otto H. Olsen on 8 pages
- Reconstruction In North Carolina (BCL1 - United States Local History) by Joseph Gregoire De Roulhac Hamilton on 7 pages
- Reconstruction in Mississippi by James Wilford Garner on 6 pages
- Republicanism in Reconstruction Texas (Reville Book) by Carl H. Moneyhon on 5 pages
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- Buried in the Bitter Waters: The Hidden History of Racial Cleansing in America by Elliot Jaspin in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Student's Guide to Landmark Congressional Laws on Youth: by Kathleen Uradnik in Back Matter
- Our Documents: 100 Milestone Documents from the National Archives by The National Archives in Back Matter
- Democracy Reborn: The Fourteenth Amendment and the Fight for Equal Rights in Post-Civil War America by Garrett Epps in Back Matter
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