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No Easy Walk to Freedom: Reconstruction and the Ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment
The three great clauses of Section 1 of the 14th Amendment were intended both to guarantee everyone the fundamental rights of citizenship and personhood and to nationalize the protection of those rights within the federal structure ordained by the Constitution.
Author(s) | By James E. Bond. |
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Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing Plc |
Format | Hardback |
Pages | 312 |
Published in | United States |
Published | 28 May 1997 |
Availability | POD |
The three great clauses of Section 1 of the 14th Amendment were intended both to guarantee everyone the fundamental rights of citizenship and personhood and to nationalize the protection of those rights within the federal structure ordained by the Constitution.
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JAMES E. BOND is the Dean of and Professor at the School of Law at Seattle University. He has taught constitutional law for two decades and is the author of four other books, including I Dissent, a biography of Justice James Clark McReynolds, and The Art