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A more perfect Union: the impact of the Civil War and Reconstruction on the Constitution
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- Creator
- by Harold M. Hyman
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- [First edition]
- New York : Knopf, 1973
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- xix, 562 pages, xviii ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780394467078, 0394467078
- OCLC
- ocm00520629
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Quarrels That the Constitution Shaped -- Westward the Course -- The Shock of Weakness -- The Constitutional Commitment to Capacity -- The Shock of Power -- Taney and Treason -- The Inadequate Constitution -- The Adequate Constitution -- Mars and the Constitution -- A Chaos of Doctrines: Military Occupation and Martial Law -- Years of Precision: Congress -- Shaping the Topography of War -- Military Government and Conscription: Terrible Machines, Capital When Under Good Control -- The Not-so-placid Concern of Judicial Organization -- The Habeas-corpus-indemnity-removal Law, March 3, 1863: To Wait the Verdicts of the Courts -- Litigation: The Great Moral Substitute for Force -- Reconstruction: On Every Putrid Spot? -- The Great Transatlantic Workshop -- The New Era -- Essay, Experiment, and Strange Vagary -- Search for an Old Order -- Designing Suits for Poltergeists: Some Non-Reconstruction Adventures -- Reconstruction: Its Hour Come Round at Last -- Republicans' Reconstruction Dilemmas and Solutions -- The Right Way? -- Wise Restraints to Make Men Free -- How to Set the Law in Motion -- Untying the Reconstruction Knot -- Conclusion: How Far Are We Bound in Honor?