Preserving the Constitution : essays on politics and the Constitution in the reconstruction era / Michael Les Benedict.
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- ISBN: 0823225534
- ISBN: 9780823225538
- ISBN: 0823225542
- ISBN: 9780823225545
- Physical Description: xiii, 314 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Edition: 1st edition
- Publisher: New York : Fordham University Press, 2006.
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| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-302) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | I: Politics, the Constitution, and reconstruction -- Preserving the Constitution : the conservative basis of radical reconstruction -- The rout of radicalism : Republicans and the elections of 1867 -- A new look at the impeachment of Andrew Johnson -- II: Parties and factions in Civil War-era politics -- The party, going strong : Congress and elections in the mid-nineteenth century -- Factionalism and representation : some insight from the nineteenth-century United States -- III: Politics, the Constitution, and the retreat from reconstruction -- The politics of reconstruction -- Salmon P. Chase and constitutional politics -- The problem of constitutionalism and constitutional liberty in the reconstruction South -- Reform Republicans and the retreat from reconstruction -- Southern Democrats in the crisis of 1876-77 : a reconsideration of reunion and reaction. |
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| Subject: | Constitutional history > United States. Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Government and Heritage Library | 342.73029 B463p (Text) | 33091006934459 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
