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A new birth of freedom : the forgotten history of the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments
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- Nathan Newman & J.J. Gass
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- English
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- [New York, New York] : Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law, [2004]
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- 1 online resource (35 pages)
- Select bibliography and endnotes (pages 32-33).
- Introduction: from the Colfax Massacre in the 1870s to the rape of Christy Brzonkala in the 1990s -- Strong national power under the pre-Civil War court -- Creating the New Birth Constitution -- Reconstruction legislation under the New Birth Amendments -- How the Klan and court killed Reconstruction -- The second Reconstruction -- The Rehnquist court revives reviled precedents -- Conclusion: Restoring the civic memory of the New Birth Constitution