“The Reconstruction Amendments responded to slavery—not only in the sense that they were intended to address the harms done to enslaved people, but also (and, I think, more importantly) in the sense that they were intended to universalize human freedom and define human freedom in contrast to slavery. ”
Peggy C. Davis, Responsive Constitutionalism and the Idea of Dignity, 11 U. Pa. J. Const. L. 1373 (2009)
