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092 _ageneral nonfiction
_b342.73 Amar, Akhil Reed
100 1 _aAmar, Akhil Reed
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245 1 0 _aBorn equal :
_bremaking America's Constitution, 1840-1920 /
_cAkhil Reed Amar.
250 _aFirst edition.
264 1 _aNew York :
_bBasic Books,
_c2025.
300 _a704 pages :
_billustrations (some color) ;
_c24 cm
336 _atext
337 _aunmediated
338 _avolume
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aPre-war -- War's eve -- Civil War -- Post war -- World war.
520 _a"In Born Equal, the prizewinning constitutional historian Akhil Reed Amar recounts the dramatic constitutional debates that unfolded across these eight decades, when four glorious amendments abolished slavery, secured Black and female citizenship, and extended suffrage regardless of race or gender. At the heart of this era was the epic and ever-evolving idea that all Americans are created equal. The promise of birth equality sat at the base of the 1776 Declaration of Independence. But in the nineteenth century, remarkable American women and men-especially Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Abraham Lincoln-elaborated a new vision of what this ideal demanded. Their debates played out from Seneca Falls to the halls of Congress, from Bloody Kansas to Gettysburg, from Ford's Theater to the White House gates, ultimately transforming the nation and the world"--
650 0 _aConstitutional history
_zUnited States
_993122
650 0 _aConstitutional amendments
_zUnited States
_995011
650 0 _aEquality before the law
_zUnited States
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650 0 _aSuffrage
_zUnited States.
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