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History, Theory, and Law of the Reconstruction Amendments
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Acknowledgments
1 Aims and methodologies 3
The Reconstruction Amendments as History 6
The Reconstruction Amendments as Political Theory 9
An Alternative Approach 16
2 Proslavery Constitutionalism versus the Theory of Union 21
Antebellum Constitutional Crisis: Slavery and the Founding 21
Proslavery Constitutionalism 28
The Constitutionalism of Union 42
Adams, Webster, and Story: Foundations of Theory of Union 43
Francis Lieber 46
Abraham Lincoln 50
3 The Argument for Toleration in Abolitionist Moral, Political, and Constitutional Thought 58
Abolitionist Ethical Criticism of Slavery: The Analogy of Anti-Semitism 59
The Argument for Toleration 63
Slavery as a Political Evil 73
The Political Evil of Racism 80
Abolitionist Constitutional Theory 89
Radical Disunionism 92
Moderate Constitutional Antislavery 95
Radical Constitutional Antislavery 97
Legitimacy of Revolution 104
4 The Second American Revolution and the Reconstruction Amendments 108
Revolutionary Principles 115
Constitutional Principles of American Constitution 119
Analysis of Political Psychology 123
Comparative Political Science 130
American Political Experience 133
Constitutional Justification and Community 134
5 A Theory of Equal Protection 149
Racism as a Constitutional Evil 150
Anti-Semitism as Racism 156
Racial Segregation as a Violation of Equal Protection 160
A Theory of Suspect Classification Analysis 170
Gender as a Suspect Classification 178
Sexual Preference as a Suspect Classification 191
6 The Nationalization of Human Rights 199
Slaughter-House Cases 204
A Theory of Privileges and Immunities 217
Enumerated Rights 221
Unenumerated Rights 224
7 Economic Justice and the Constitution 233
8 Conscience and Constitutional Interpretation 252
Appendix I: Constitution, Statutes, and Legislative History 259
Appendix II: Case Law 261
Bibliography 263
Index 285
