The Southern ratification debate on the 14th Amendment was a
part of the bitter, decade-long struggle to reconstruct and later
redeem the South. This book makes clear that amidst all the
conflict and cacophony of the period, the commands of the 14th
Amendment were widely and uniformly understood. The three great
clauses of Section 1 of the 14th Amendment were intended both to
guarantee everyone the fundamental rights of citizenship and
personhood and to nationalize the protection of those rights within
the federal structure ordained by the Constitution. That means that
the states were to retain primary responsibility for defining and
protecting those rights, subject only to the requirement that they
treat all fairly and equally. Rooted in the natural rights
philosophy of the Declaration of Independence rather than in the
text of the Bill of Rights, the commands of the 14th Amendment were
intended to protect liberty in an inseparable union of states. This
study lets the participants in these events speak for themselves:
in official reports; in party platforms and campaign speeches; in
resolutions from meetings, rallies, and conventions; in editorials
and letters to the editor; and in private diaries and personal
correspondence. Much of the documentary evidence in this book is
being published for the first time.
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