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Hardcover. New Condition. Dust jacket in excellent condition. In this perspective-altering new book, George P. Fletcher asserts that the Civil War was the most significant event in American legal history, an event that not only abolished slavery and changed the laws of the land but also created a new set of principles that continues to guide our thinking today.Much as historians and lawmakers strive to maintain a continuity with the Constitution of 1787, Fletcher shows that the Civil War presented a rupture not only between North and South but between two visions of the United States. The first Constitution was based on the principles of peoplehood as a voluntary association, individual freedom, and republican elitism. The government chosen by "We the People" sought, above all, to protect the rights of individuals and to limit the leadership of the nation to a select few. It was a Constitution, moreover, that accommodated the most undemocratic institution imaginable: slavery. The second Constitution,…
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Our Secret Constitution: How Lincoln Redefined American Democracy Hardcover - 2001
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- Title Our Secret Constitution: How Lincoln Redefined American Democracy
- Author George P. Fletcher
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 304
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Oxford University Press, USA, New York
- Date 2001-05
- ISBN 9780195141429 / 0195141423
- Weight 1.27 lbs (0.58 kg)
- Dimensions 5.9 x 9 x 1.1 in (14.99 x 22.86 x 2.79 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects United States, Constitutional history - United States
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 00057495
- Dewey Decimal Code 320.109
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