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It had become increasingly clear across the war that the abolition of slavery was a likely outcome. And of course, the objective of winning that war had always been a primary pursuit. Suddenly, you get the two in combination, and each left a huge combination to be addressed. What would the now suddenly former Confederate States be . And how to treat them. And who would the nowformer slaves be . What should be their status. Lawmakers, federal or state, had multiple models to work from as they tried to address the question of former slaves. One was white freedom. The same rights, responsibilitie...

And has another book out on the famous case of loving versus virginia, which will be out in 2014, called race, sex, and freedom to marry loving versus virginia. It is an honor and a privilege to introduce peter to all of you and turn the podium over to him. [applause] thank you, paul. And thank you all for coming out today. Why are you in here, anyway . I cannot speak for the other speakers, but it is rare for me at least to have the u. S. Senate imposed on the structure i am standing before. It is a privilege and an honor, and i am happy to be here. Ingress came together december 1865 for the...

[inaudible conversations] [applause] ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the National Constitution center. I am Jeffrey Rosen the president of this wonderful institution which, as one or two of you may be aware is the only institution in america chartered by congress to disseminate information about the u. S. Constitution on a nonpartisan basis. Beautiful. You can all sing along to our Glorious Mission statement and weve now encapsulated this as well which is to say this is the only place in america in these polarized times where people of different perspectives can come together to learn about c...

The brilliant fighting of black troops have ensured the salvation of the union. The fact that africanamerican soldiers had defeated lee lent additional symbolic meaning to the surrender for me and his army of Northern Virginia typified the ice of the u. S. Ct slaveholding elites and its racial superiority. Thomas Morris Chester confederate capitulation was especially sweet cousins are reviewed to the first families of virginia who he do after the virginians. In short, men such as williams and chester made and sustained the bold claim that defeat u. S. Army africanamerican troops have dealt a d...

Fact he was talking to him every day about your slip the 14th amendment is supposed to mean. That may not have worked out so well rather than convincing. But i think the Supreme Court often does not go with what we might consider the correct interpretation of a particular provision. They have their own way of doing things and that is part of the reason. The other thing to say is that support for the kind of things that they know most interested in, fundamental rights fundamentally in the years following the civil war. Once you got out about ten years after the end of the war, there was much le...