CNN Legal View With Ashleigh Banfield December 9, 2015 17:07:00
President lincoln understood that if we were to fully realize the founding promise, it meant not just signing an emancipation proclamation, and not just winning a war, but it made making the most prophetic statement by etching our values into the constitution. he called it a king's cure for all of the evils. 150 years proved the cure to be necessary, but not sufficient. progress proved halting, too often deferred. newly freed slaves may have been libber rated by the letter of the law, but their daily lives told another tale. they couldn't vote. they couldn't fill most occupations, and they cou...