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Reconstruction-era violence

Violence during the Reconstruction era in the United States, and the federal response to it

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Jan 24, 2026
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How did Republican wartime and Reconstruction policies translate into the 13th Amendment process?

wartime measures—most visibly the and the party’s 1864 platform—created the political momentum and constitutional rationale that drove to draft and pass the as a permanent national abolition of slaver...

Jan 23, 2026

What legal processes exist to apply Section 3 of the 14th Amendment to bar a former official from future office?

of the Fourteenth Amendment bars anyone who, after swearing an official oath, “engaged in insurrection or rebellion” or gave “aid or comfort” to enemies from holding federal or state office, but the m...