03279cam a2200337 4500 951641830 TxAuBib 20230630120000.0 ||||||s2019||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781980056751 1980056757 22d44eee-e7ba-41f6-b623-7577d7f504d7 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 4942017 OverDrive (Product ID) 5049625 5049625 TxAuBib Foner, Eric. The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution [Sunflower eLibrary Audiobook]. Recorded Books, Inc., 2019. Format: OverDrive OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, Filesize: 206MB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Listen, Filesize: 206MB. From the Pulitzer Prize-winning scholar, a timely history of the constitutional changes that built equality into the nation's foundation and how those guarantees have been shaken over time. The Declaration of Independence announced equality as an American ideal, but it took the Civil War and the subsequent adoption of three constitutional amendments to establish that ideal as American law. The Reconstruction amendments abolished slavery, guaranteed all persons due process and equal protection of the law, and equipped black men with the right to vote. They established the principle of birthright citizenship and guaranteed the privileges and immunities of all citizens. The federal government, not the states, was charged with enforcement, reversing the priority of the original Constitution and the Bill of Rights. In grafting the principle of equality onto the Constitution, these revolutionary changes marked the second founding of the United States. Eric Foner's compact, insightful history traces the arc of these pivotal amendments from their dramatic origins in pre-Civil War mass meetings of African-American "colored citizens" and in Republican party politics to their virtual nullification in the late nineteenth century. A series of momentous decisions by the Supreme Court narrowed the rights guaranteed in the amendments, while the states actively undermined them. The Jim Crow system was the result. Again today there are serious political challenges to birthright citizenship, voting rights, due process, and equal protection of the law. Like all great works of history, this one informs our understanding of the present as well as the past: knowledge and vigilance are always necessary to secure our basic rights. Nonfiction. History. Media Type: Audiobook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2023-08-29 20:00:03. Corren, Donald. https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/1694-1/4942017-TheSecondFounding.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=22d44eee-e7ba-41f6-b623-7577d7f504d7&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/1694-1/4942017-TheSecondFounding.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive Listen) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=22d44eee-e7ba-41f6-b623-7577d7f504d7&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Listen)