Abolition Constitutionalism

[W}e should consider the abolitionist history of the Reconstruction Amendments as a usable past to help move toward a radical future . . .

[T]oday’s activists can deploy the Reconstruction Amendments ... on the path to building a society without prisons.
— Dorothy Roberts

Dorothy Roberts, Abolition Constitutionalism , 133 Harv. L. Rev. 1 (2019)

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