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A Legal History of the Civil War and Reconstruction - A Nation of Rights (Hardcover)
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A Legal History of the Civil War and Reconstruction - A Nation of Rights (Hardcover)
Series: New Histories of American Law
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Although hundreds of thousands of people died fighting in the
American Civil War, perhaps the war's biggest casualty was the
nation's legal order. A Legal History of the Civil War and
Reconstruction explores the implications of this major change by
bringing legal history into dialogue with the scholarship of other
historical fields. Federal policy on slavery and race, particularly
the three Reconstruction amendments, are the best-known legal
innovations of the era. Change, however, permeated all levels of
the legal system, altering Americans' relationship to the law and
allowing them to move popular conceptions of justice into the ambit
of government policy. The results linked Americans to the nation
through individual rights, which were extended to more people and,
as a result of new claims, were reimagined to cover a wider array
of issues. But rights had limits in what they could accomplish,
particularly when it came to the collective goals that so many
ordinary Americans advocated.
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