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NOTES ON THE CONSTITUTIONAL HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES

McIntosh, David


Item #: 63258
Published: OE; James Harry; 500.

Written at the end of the Reconstruction period, this is astimulating and often insighful study of the early politicalhistory of the United Sates and its constitutional growthfrom the colonial period to the passage of the FifteenthAmendment. It is particularly interesting for its balanced,coolly legalistic, discussion of the Civil War, thereconstruction amendments and the decisions of the SupremeCourt under Taney, Chase and Waite. McIntosh was aPittsburgh lawyer. Notes is based on a series of lecturespresented to the students of Westminster College, NewWilmington, PA.Reprinted by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.Distributed by William S. Hein & Co., Inc.

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