Congress Reads the Constitution, Tea Party-Style
…gender.” A Refuge for the Powerful It could be even more educational if a central tenet of American historical writing about the Constitution—that it was made once, and then completely remade through the affirmative and far-reaching exercise of federal power to remake citizenship undertaken during the Civil War and Reconstruction—could have been part of the discussion. Only a serious grappling with the original passages would make that possible….
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