![]() ![]() In order to remedy the First Founding’s defects, the Second Founding amended the Constitution to prohibit slavery and empower Congress to remediate slavery’s lingering effects to recognize Black citizenship and protect rights to due process and equal protection for all and to enfranchise African-Americans on a national basis. After centuries of struggle and a cataclysmic Civil War, a new constitutional order emerged: A Second Founding of the nation that sought to dismantle the legacies of slavery and turn American law away from nearly two hundred fifty years of race-based enslavement and discrimination. The nation’s founding compromise with slavery resulted in a Constitution that proclaimed universal liberty in theory while protecting human enslavement in practice. ![]() ![]() The Second Founding and the First Amendment ![]()
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