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Book Review | The Journal of American History, 86.1 | The History Cooperative

Abraham Lincoln, Constitutionalism, and Equal Rights in the Civil War Era. By Herman Belz. (New York: Fordham University Press, 1998. xii, 265 pp. Cloth, $32.00, isbn 0-8232-1768-X. Paper, $18.00, isbn 0-8232-1769-8.)

Herman Belz has republished nine of his thought-provoking articles, all of which argue (some more subtly than others) that the Civil War and Reconstruction era was not revolutionary. Rather, Republicans sought to preserve the Founders' Constitution—a constitution based on federalism, not nationalism, and dedicated to the natural-rights liberties articulated in the Declaration of Independence. . . .

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