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American Founding Son
eBook - John Bingham and the Invention of the Fourteenth Amendment
ISBN/EAN: 9781479872671
Umbreit-Nr.: 2139342
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 0 S.
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Erschienen am 06.09.2013
Auflage: 1/2013
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- <p><b>A history of the origins of the 14th Amendment and the the man who helped craft it</b><br><br>John Bingham was the architect of the rebirth of the United States following the Civil War. A leading antislavery lawyer and congressman from Ohio, Bingham wrote the most important part of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution, which guarantees fundamental rights and equality to all Americans. He was also at the center of two of the greatest trials in history, giving the closing argument in the military prosecution of John Wilkes Booths co-conspirators for the assassination of Abraham Lincoln and in the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson. And more than any other man, Bingham played the key role in shaping the Unions policy towards the occupied ex-Confederate States, with consequences that still haunt our politics.<br><br><i>American Founding Son</i> provides the most complete portrait yet of this remarkable statesman. Drawing on his personal letters and speeches, the book traces Binghams life from his humble roots in Pennsylvania through his career as a leader of the Republican Party. Gerard N. Magliocca argues that Bingham and his congressional colleagues transformed the Constitution that the Founding Fathers created, and did so with the same ingenuity that their forbears used to create a more perfect union in the 1780s. In this book, Magliocca restores Bingham to his rightful place as one of our great leaders.</p>