CSPAN3 Lectures In History Abraham Lincoln Andrew Johnson And The Constitution July 13, 2024
Because of that, its a particularly good point in this course to talk about a big issue that goes throughout the civil war that we need to look at a e antebellum. The question is the United States constitution. One thing historians have been asking for generations about the constitution and the civil war area, a basic question is to what degree did the constitution shape the civil war area . What to what degree did it make political actors do certain things . Constrain them. Or guide their actions. On the flip side to what degree did the civil war era shape the constitution . Some of this is v...