{"product_id":"the-second-founding-warrior","title":"The Second Founding Warrior","description":"The Constitution was born twice. The first founding created the federal republic. The second founding — the Reconstruction Amendments ratified in the aftermath of the Civil War — transformed that republic by prohibiting slavery, guaranteeing equal protection and due process, and establishing federal power to enforce civil rights against the states. Understanding this second founding — what the Reconstruction Amendments meant to those who wrote and ratified them, how they were betrayed by the post-Reconstruction Supreme Court, and how they eventually became the constitutional foundation of the civil rights movement — is essential to any complete understanding of American constitutional law. \n\nThe Second Founding Warrior is Volume XXXII of Wayne Richard Evangelista's Constitutional Law Series. \n\nWayne Richard Evangelista covers the complete Reconstruction constitutional landscape: the Thirteenth Amendment's abolition and its Section 2 enforcement power; the Fourteenth Amendment's original meaning from the 39th Congress debates through the Civil Rights Act of 1866; the Fourteenth Amendment's privileges or immunities, due process, and equal protection clauses as originally understood; the Civil Rights Act of 1875 and its invalidation in The Civil Rights Cases; Plessy v. Ferguson and the collapse of Reconstruction's promise; the long road to Brown v. Board of Education; the Fifteenth Amendment's voting rights guarantee and its systematic evasion; and the original meaning arguments that the constitutional warrior deploys in civil rights litigation today.","brand":"Constitutional Law Series","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55702150512713,"sku":"68dk2x","price":69.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0981\/0896\/4937\/files\/dyevpmw-front-shortedge-384.jpg?v=1779723035","url":"https:\/\/constitutionallawseries.myshopify.com\/products\/the-second-founding-warrior","provider":"Constitutional Law Series","version":"1.0","type":"link"}