I am sorry. This was intended as an off list reply.
Michael Curtis
Michael Curtis wrote:
The article is on its way.
I am sending attached with this email some information about my book of
stories from free speech history. They show development of a strong
free speech tradition outside of
See also David A.J. Richards, CONSCIENCE AND THE CONSTITUTION (making the
connection between the 14th amendment and the Declaration of Independence).
SDG
At 10:58 PM 9/23/03 -0400, you wrote:
To the list of correctives on 14th Am history, we should add Brandwein,
RECONSTRUCTING RECONSTRUCTION, a
It is perhaps unfair to say that Berger swallowed it whole.
Well, Bryan, his negative remarks about Sumner, Stevens et al. were pure
Southern-biased history.
Judy Baer
It strikes me as odd that, in popular culture at least, we have a
pantheon of constitutional heroes--George Washington, James Madison,
Alexander Hamilton, etc. These are the framers who (for strong
political reasons) gave us a constitution that protected the slave trade
until 1808, that provided
Michael's new article is of great interest, and I highly recommend
it--even without any disparagement of Washington, Madison Hamilton as
producing a Constitution that did not abolish slavery. (For all their
accomplishments, Bingham and Howard did not abolish legal discrimination
against women,
of logic.
Bryan Wildenthal
Thomas Jefferson School of Law
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From: earl maltz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Just for the record, neither Bingham nor Howard
It has long been common knowledge among modern U.S. historians that the
American memory and understanding of the Civil War and Reconstruction was
basically taken over and distorted for many years by Southern and
white-supremacist sympathizers.
As late as 1977, Raoul Berger (GOVERNMENT BY
: John Bingham the Story of American Liberty
It has long been common knowledge among modern U.S. historians that the
American memory and understanding of the Civil War and Reconstruction was
basically taken over and distorted for many years by Southern and
white-supremacist sympathizers.
As late
To follow this thread, the focus of so much inquiry on the intent of the
original Framers obscures the fact that whatever their understanding was of
the original document, the document today is textually much different. So
originalist thinking helps block thinking about what the text today means.
published!)
Bryan Wildenthal
Thomas Jefferson School of Law
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From: Mark Graber [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2003 7:58 PM
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To the list of correctives on 14th Am
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