Punish Treason, Reward Loyalty: The Forgotten Goals of Constitutional Reform After the Civil War Graber Mark A.
Punish Treason, Reward Loyalty: The Forgotten Goals of Constitutional Reform After the Civil War Graber Mark A. In contemporary constitutional politics, Section 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment--which…
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Punish Treason, Reward Loyalty: The Forgotten Goals of Constitutional Reform After the Civil War Graber Mark A.
In contemporary constitutional politics, Section 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment--which includes the citizenship, privileges and immunities, due process, and equal protection clauses--is the star of the show. Their interest was instead in Sections 2, 3, and 4. But this was not the focus for the Republican members of the Thirty-Ninth Congress.
But the Republicans engaged in Reconstruction saw its purpose as preventing "rebel rule" by punishing treason and rewarding loyalty, particularly the loyalty of white men who remained faithful to the Union during the Civil War.In this first of three planned volumes for the University Press of Kansas's Constitutional Thinking series, Mark A. Today we tend to think the purpose of the Fourteenth Amendment was to protect persons of color. Graber aims to restore to contemporary memory the Fourteenth Amendment drafted by those Republican and
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