Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-278) and index.
Summary
"Nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in History, The Amendment That Refused to Die examines the passage of, and assault on, the "Big Fourteen," the post-Civil War amendment to the Constitution that guarantees equality and justice for all people. Howard N. Meyer explores the reaction against the amendment's sweeping reform, from judicial sabotage and KKK terrorism to the "separate but equal" debacle of Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896. He investigates the amendment's impact on more recent issues, such as institutionalized segregation and police misconduct, as well as the challenges faced by those who would extend the amendment's protective mantle to the interests of labor, women, homosexuals, and legal immigrants.".
"This updated edition analyzes the current attacks on the Fourteenth Amendment that not only threaten affirmative action, desegregation, voting rights, abortion rights, gay rights, protection from the tyranny of the State, and due process, but the amendment itself, the vital heart and guarantor of all our liberties."--BOOK JACKET.
Some peculiar laws and customs of colonial days : a paper read before the Pennsylvania Society of the Order of the Founders and Patriots of America, January 14th, 1905
Rules and articles, for the better government of the troops raised : or to be raised, and kept in pay by, and at the expence of the United States of America
The self-taught conveyancer, or, Farmers' and mechanics' guide : being a compilation from the most approved authorities, of the various instruments of writing, which are found necessary in the common concerns of the farmer, mechanic and man of business : arranged in so clear and concise a manner, that the most ignorant may with ease, by referring to it, execute bonds, leases, deeds, indentures, notes, articles, of agreement, &c. without application to an attorney
