Easy english book download The Second Founding:

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

The-Second-Founding-How-the.pdf
ISBN: 9780393652581 | 288 pages | 8 Mb

• The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution
• Eric Foner
• Page: 288
• Format: pdf, ePub, fb2, mobi
• ISBN: 9780393652581
• Publisher: Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.

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

Easy english book download The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution by Eric Foner English version DJVU PDF

From the Pulitzer Prize–winning scholar, a timely history of the constitutional changes that built equality into the nation’s foundation and how those guarantees have been shaken over time. The Declaration of Independence announced equality as an American ideal, but it took the Civil War and the subsequent adoption of three constitutional amendments to establish that ideal as American law. The Reconstruction amendments abolished slavery, guaranteed all persons due process and equal protection of the law, and equipped black men with the right to vote. They established the principle of birthright citizenship and guaranteed the privileges and immunities of all citizens. The federal government, not the states, was charged with enforcement, reversing the priority of the original Constitution and the Bill of Rights. In grafting the principle of equality onto the Constitution, these revolutionary changes marked the second founding of the United States. Eric Foner’s compact, insightful history traces the arc of these pivotal amendments from their dramatic origins in pre–Civil War mass meetings of African-American “colored citizens” and in Republican party politics to their virtual nullification in the late nineteenth century. A series of momentous decisions by the Supreme Court narrowed the rights guaranteed in the amendments, while the states actively undermined them. The Jim Crow system was the result. Again today there are serious political challenges to birthright citizenship, voting rights, due process, and equal protection of the law. Like all great works of history, this one informs our understanding of the present as well as the past: knowledge and vigilance are always necessary to secure our basic rights.

The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning scholar, a timely history of the constitutional The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the  Brooklyn Voices: Eric Foner & Chris Hayes | Greenlight Bookstore
Eric Foner presents The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution In conversation with Chris Hayes Tickets $30  The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction
The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the ideal, but it took the Civil War and the subsequent adoption of three constitutional   The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction
The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the ideal, but it took the Civil War and the subsequent adoption of three constitutional   Eric Foner Reviews "Separate" by Steve Luxenberg | History News
His latest book, “The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution,” will appear in September.

Download more ebooks:
Descarga gratuita del foro de libros electrónicos. FALCÓ (SERIE FALCÓ 1) 9788420419688 RTF
Téléchargez des livres sur iPad et iphone Biostatistique - Une approche intuitive 9782807321892 par Harvey J. Motulsky (French Edition) FB2 CHM