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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The original constitution was defective and led to a bloody Civil War. As Thurgood Marshall put it, "[w]hile the Union survived the Civil War, the Constitution did not. In its place arose a new, more promising basis for justice and equality, the fourteenth amendment[.]"
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It's easy to overlook just how transformative the Reconstruction Amendments were, especially since they did not alter the structure of the federal government (three branches, checks and balances, etc).
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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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