The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution

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Aug 1

“The 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments to the US Constitution wrote a new definition of American citizenship and the rights it entails. These changes were not minor tweaks in an existing structure but created a fundamentally new constitution”

— Eric Foner

Taonga Leslie

The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution

The Second Founding and the First Amendment

Abolition Constitutionalism

“We, the people”—not we, the white people—not we, the citizens, or the legal voters—not we, the privileged class— but we, the people—the men and women, do ordain and establish this Constitution”