American founding son : John Bingham and the invention of the Fourteenth Amendment
Overview: 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 al...
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New York :
New York University Press,
[2013]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : measuring a man
- Group think
- Franklin College
- Lawyer and whig
- Republican congressman
- And the war came
- The trial of the century
- The Fourteenth Amendment
- Reconstruction and impeachment
- Farewell to Washington
- Ambassador
- Obscurity
- Conclusion : legacy.