We don't often think of them as such, but the Reconstruction Amendments were, in a way, a new constitution. Parts of the 1789 constitution remained in place but the 13-15th Amendments provided the basis for a new system of gov't in which all people were viewed as, well, people.
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But the Reconstruction Amendments redefined the meaning of "We the People." The Fourteenth Amendment was a first step in transition America from a herrenvolk democracy into a real democracy. Redemption can be understood as a nullification of the Reconstruction constitution.
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