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As the nation turned its back on Reconstruction, the Supreme Court in turn narrowed Thirteenth-, Fourteenth-, and Fifteenth-Amendment protections of former slaves, thus straying from the understanding of the amendments' framers. Tracking a long line of cases that employed narrow constructions of these amendments and accompanying statutes, this study compares the Court's propositions to the framers' own interpretations. The resulting portrait makes it clear that the Court contributed in a signifi
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- Author
- Frank J. Scaturro
- Publisher
- Praeger; Bloomsbury
- Published
- 2000
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780313002274
- Category
- law
- Subjects
- History, Political Science, Law
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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