Preserving the Constitution : : Essays on Politics and the Constitution in the Reconstruction Era / / Michael Les Benedict.
“Americans’ ideas about constitutional liberty played a crucial role in the history of Reconstruction. They provided the basis for the Republican program of equal rights; ironically, they also set the limits to that program and reduced the prospects for its success. Americans were as concerned with...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2022] ©2006 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Reconstructing America
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (316 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction: Constitutional Politics and Reconstruction
- I Politics, the Constitution, and Reconstruction
- 1 Preserving the Constitution: The Conservative Basis of Radical Reconstruction
- 2 The Rout of Radicalism: Republicans and the Elections of 1867
- 3 A New Look at the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson
- II Parties and Factions in Civil War–Era Politics
- 4 The Party, Going Strong: Congress and Elections in the Mid-Nineteenth Century
- 5 Factionalism and Representation: Some Insight from the Nineteenth-Century United States
- III Politics, the Constitution, and the Retreat from Reconstruction
- 6 The Politics of Reconstruction
- 7 Salmon P. Chase and Constitutional Politics
- 8 The Problem of Constitutionalism and Constitutional Liberty in the Reconstruction South
- 9 Reform Republicans and the Retreat from Reconstruction
- 10 Southern Democrats in the Crisis of 1876–77: A Reconsideration of Reunion and Reaction
- Notes
- Index