Description: Conscience and the Constitution : History, Theory, and Law of the Reconstruction Amendments, Hardcover by Richards, David A. J., ISBN 0691630194, ISBN-13 9780691630199, Brand New, Free shipping in the US
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 Americas revolutionary, rights-based constitutionalism. Building on an approach to constitutional law developed in his Toleration and the Constitution and Foundations of American Constitutionalism, Richards links history, law, and political theory. In Conscience and the Constitution, this method leads from an analysis of the Reconstruction Amendments to a broad discussion of the American constitutional system as a whole.
Richardss interpretation focuses on the abolitionists and their radical commitment to the "dissenting conscience." In his view, the Reconstruction Amendments expressed not only the constitutional arguments of a particular historical period but also a general political theory developed by the abolitionists, who restructured the American political community in terms of respect for universal human rights. He argues further that the amendments make a claim on our generation to keep faith with the vision of the "founders of 1865." In specific terms he points out what such allegiance would mean in the context of present-day constitutional issues.
Originally published in 1993.
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Book Title: Conscience and the Constitution : History, Theory, and Law of the
Number of Pages: 308 Pages
Publication Name: Conscience and the Constitution : History, Theory, and Law of the Reconstruction Amendments
Language: English
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication Year: 2016
Subject: Constitutional, Constitutions, Civil Rights, United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877)
Item Height: 0.9 in
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 21 Oz
Item Length: 9.4 in
Author: David A. J. Richards
Subject Area: Law, Political Science, History
Item Width: 6.1 in
Series: Princeton Legacy Library
Format: Hardcover
