Labor Pains in America's New Birth of Freedom: How the Reconstruction Amendments Were Enacted
Event Date
10-25-2005
Abstract
Almost a century after American colonists secured their freedom from England, internal conflict surrounding the legitimacy of slavery forced our still-evolving nation to evaluate its core values in a “struggle over the meaning of democracy itself.”
Repository Citation
Amar, Akhil Reed, "Labor Pains in America's New Birth of Freedom: How the Reconstruction Amendments Were Enacted" (2005). Sibley Lecture Series. 12.
https://digitalcommons.law.uga.edu/lectures_pre_arch_lectures_sibley/12
sibleyfall05.pdf (79 kB)
The Birth of the Reconstruction Amendments, The Advocate, Fall 2005/Winter 2006, Vol. 40, no. 2
reedpressrelease.pdf (8 kB)
100th Sibley Lecture to spotlight U.S. Constitution, Press Release, 10/11/05
The Birth of the Reconstruction Amendments, The Advocate, Fall 2005/Winter 2006, Vol. 40, no. 2
reedpressrelease.pdf (8 kB)
100th Sibley Lecture to spotlight U.S. Constitution, Press Release, 10/11/05
COinS
Akhil Reed Amar, a Yale law professor, delivered the 100th Sibley Lecture on Tuesday, Oct. 25, at 4:30 p.m. in the Hatton Lovejoy Courtroom at the University of Georgia School of Law.