Conscience and the Constitution: History, Theory, and Law of the Reconstruction Amendments

by David A.J. Richards

Book Overview

At stage center of the American drama, maintains David A. J. Richards, is the attempt to understand the implications of the Reconstruction Amendments--Amendments Thirteen, Fourteen, and Fifteen to the United States Constitution. Richards evaluates previous efforts to interpret the amendments and then proposes his own view: together the amendments embodied a self-conscious rebirth of America's revolutionary, rights-based constitutionalism. Building...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691600244
• ISBN13: 9780691600246
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 308 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"