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<p>The Supreme Court uses a myth of its own impartiality to justify a legacy of judicial review that is tainted by its service to slavery and Jim Crow. </p>

<p>The Supreme Court uses a myth of its own impartiality to justify a legacy of judicial review that is tainted by its service to slavery and Jim Crow. </p>

Section 2 of the 14th Amendment requires Congress to punish states that restrict the right to vote. Will Democrats finally revive it?

Eric Foner, a member of The Nation’s editorial board, is the DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University and the author, most recently, of The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery (Norton), was awarded the Pulitzer, Bancroft and Lincoln prizes.

At the turning of another season – and in a time of rebirth and renewal – let's set out to begin America again.

Inside Every Progressive Is A Totalitarian Screaming To Get Out - David Horowitz

For many years in Pennsylvania and Vermont members of the Thaddeus Stevens Society have been urging the U.S. Postal Service/Citizens’ Stamp Advisory Committee (CSAC) to issue a stamp honoring “The

Legal scholars continue to explore the frontier of constitutional interpretation, with recent books by Ilan Wurman (The Second Founding; A Debt Against the Living), Kurt Lash (The Fourteenth Amendment and the Privileges and Immunities of American Citizenship; The Reconstruction Amendments), Randy Barnett (The Original Meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment; Our Republican Constitution), and many others.

From the column: "It is just part of America’s struggle to become a 'more perfect union.' As our ancestors taught us, that work is never finished."

As advanced as it was for its time, however, the Bill of Rights still fell critically...