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A Legal History of the Civil War and Reconstruction: A Nation of Rights (New Histories of American Law)

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 | #669838 in Books |  Laura F Edwards |  2015-01-26 |  2015-03-19 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.50 x.47 x5.43l,.0 | File type: PDF | 226 pages

 | A Legal History of the Civil War and Reconstruction A Nation of Rights New Histories of American Law

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||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| An Excellent Study of the Birth the Modern American Legal Order|By Matthew D. Jones|This is a concise study of the birth of the American legal order as we know it today. As historians have observed, the Civil War was a greater social revolution than the political break with Great Britain. This volume details the legal revolution that followed in its wake, abolishing slavery on| |"Bold, brilliant, and sweeping, this concise history places the transformation of American law at the center of the Civil War. In clear analysis of constitutional amendments, Supreme Court decisions, expanding wartime powers, and everyday people's bold claims,

Although hundreds of thousands of people died fighting in the Civil War, perhaps the war's biggest casualty was the nation's legal order. A Nation of Rights explores the implications of this major change by bringing legal history into dialogue with the scholarship of other historical fields. Federal policy on slavery and race, particularly the three Reconstruction amendments, are the best-known legal innovations of the era. Change, however, permeated all levels of the le...

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