Some of those controversies continue today. In this concise and tightly written book, Foner describes the historical context in which each amendment was adopted, the debates over the amendments, and the primary controversies raised by each measure at the time. courts but also in the nation's political culture. Battles over the extent of that transformation continue today, not only in U.S. Foner argues that the Reconstruction amendments “forged a new constitutional relationship between individual Americans and the national state and were crucial in creating the world's first biracial democracy” (p. In this book, noted historian Eric Foner describes the constitutional transformation wrought by the Reconstruction amendments, which include: the Thirteenth Amendment, which abolished slavery and involuntary servitude the Fourteenth Amendment, which established birthright citizenship, established federal rights enforceable against state governments and rules governing the political structure of the nation as it re-admitted the rebellious states and the Fifteenth Amendment, which prohibited the denial of the right to vote based on race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
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