"reconstruction" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The Fifteenth Amendment is the third of the Reconstruction Amendments.
- It was ratified on February 3, 1870, as the third and final of the Reconstruction Amendments.
- Still, there is something missing in this filtering off of the three Reconstruction Amendments and calling them a separate constitution.
- The passage of the Reconstruction Amendments was still fresh in the minds of everyone.
- If the Reconstruction Amendments had really been an entirely new constitution, the courts could have ignored the concept of state citizenship altogether.
- But if that was the only purpose of the Reconstruction Amendments, the Thirteenth had already done the job.
- The Thirteenth Amendment is the first of the Reconstruction Amendments.
- The argument, then, is that the three Reconstruction Amendments enacted a second American constitution.
- Above all, I am not making an argument about the "original intent" that lay behind the Reconstruction Amendments.
- The intention of those who framed the Reconstruction Amendments should, therefore, not control their interpretation today.
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