TY - GEN AB - This landmark work of Constitutional and legal history is the leading account of the ways in which federal judges, attorneys, and other law officers defined a new era of civil and political rights in the South and implemented the revolutionary 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments during Reconstruction. "Should be required reading . . . for all historians, jurists, lawyers, political scientists, and government officials who in one way or another are responsible for understanding and interpreting our civil rights past."-Harold M. Hyman, Journal of Southern History "Important, richly researched. . . . the fullest account now available."-American Journal of Legal History AU - Kaczorowski, Robert J., DO - 10.1515/9780823293179 DO - doi ID - 1477938 JF - Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014 JF - Fordham University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 KW - HISTORY / United States / 19th Century. LA - eng LA - In English. LK - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780823293179 N2 - This landmark work of Constitutional and legal history is the leading account of the ways in which federal judges, attorneys, and other law officers defined a new era of civil and political rights in the South and implemented the revolutionary 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments during Reconstruction. "Should be required reading . . . for all historians, jurists, lawyers, political scientists, and government officials who in one way or another are responsible for understanding and interpreting our civil rights past."-Harold M. Hyman, Journal of Southern History "Important, richly researched. . . . the fullest account now available."-American Journal of Legal History SN - 9780823293179 T1 - The Politics of Judicial Interpretation :The Federal Courts, Department of Justice, and Civil Rights, 1866-1876 / TI - The Politics of Judicial Interpretation :The Federal Courts, Department of Justice, and Civil Rights, 1866-1876 / UR - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780823293179 ER -