The Trial of Democracy: Black Suffrage and Northern Republicans, 1860-1910University of Georgia Press, 2012 M01 15 - 480 páginas After the Civil War, Republicans teamed with activist African Americans to protect black voting rights through innovative constitutional reforms--a radical transformation of southern and national political structures. The Trial of Democracy is a comprehensive analysis of both the forces and mechanisms that led to the implementation of black suffrage and the ultimate failure to maintain a stable northern constituency to support enforcement on a permanent basis. The reforms stirred fierce debates over the political and constitutional value of black suffrage, the legitimacy of racial equality, and the proper sharing of power between the state and federal governments. Unlike most studies of Reconstruction, this book follows these issues into the early twentieth century to examine the impact of the constitutional principles and the rise of Jim Crow. Tying constitutional history to party politics, The Trial of Democracy is a vital contribution to both fields. |
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... Fifteenth Amendment, 1860 — 1870 Chapter Two. The Making of Federal Enforcement Laws, 1870 — 1872 Chapter Three. The Anatomy of Enforcement, 1870 — 1876 Chapter Four. The Hayes Administration and Black Suffrage, 1876 - 1880 Chapter Five ...
... Amendments (Sherman Substitute) to the Reconstruction Bill Table 1.7. House Passage of Final Conference Report for the Fifteenth Amendment Bill Table 1.8. Senate Passage of Final Conference Report for the Fifteenth Amendment Bill Table ...
... amendments, the Fifteenth Amendment stood as the most revolutionary, for it put into the hands of millions of former slaves the right of suffrage, an essential right enabling a citizen to be politically accountable in a democracy. With ...
... Fifteenth Amendment? Historians have been debating these questions for generations. The Dunning school historians attributed the failure of enforcement to the radical and conspiratorial nature of Reconstruction, from which the ...
... Fifteenth Amendment was essential.”8 Others challenged this notion and argued, as John H. and LaWanda Cox did, that the Republicans pushed forward black suffrage on the grounds of principle even though they knew that black suffrage ...
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Chapter Two The Making of Federal Enforcement Laws 18701872 | 49 |
Chapter Three The Anatomy of Enforcement 18701876 | 93 |
Chapter Four The Hayes Administration and Black Suffrage 18761880 | 134 |
Chapter Five The Survival of a Principle 18801888 | 180 |
Chapter Six The Rise and Fall of Reenforcement 18881891 | 216 |
Epilogue Equality Deferred 18921910 | 253 |
Appendix One Enforcement Act of May 31 1870 | 267 |
Appendix Four Enforcement Act of April 20 1871 | 288 |
Appendix Five Enforcement Rider in the Civil Appropriation Act of June 10 1872 | 292 |
Appendix Six Sections from the Enforcement Acts in the Revised Statutes Their Repeals and Amendments | 294 |
Appendix Seven Criminal Prosecutions under Enforcement Acts 18701894 by Section and Year | 300 |
Appendix Eight Strength Distribution of the Major Parties in the Federal Government 18611909 | 302 |
Abbreviations | 303 |
Notes | 305 |
Selected Bibliography | 375 |
Appendix Two Naturalization Act of July 14 1870 | 275 |
Appendix Three Enforcement Act of February 28 1871 | 278 |
Index | 397 |
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The Trial of Democracy: Black Suffrage and Northern Republicans, 1860-1910 Xi Wang Vista previa limitada - 2012 |
The Trial of Democracy: Black Suffrage and Northern Republicans, 1860-1910 Wang, Xi Vista previa limitada - 1997 |