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Born Equal

Remaking America’s Constitution, 1840–1920
  • Akhil Reed Amar
2025
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Salmon P. Chase
Book Review

Who Owns the Founding? Akhil Reed Amar’s "Born Equal: Remaking America's Constitution"

Politics keeps refighting the Founding: Amar says liberals inherit originalism, but that tale smooths 19th-century contradictions.
by Ahmed Ahmed via Liberal Currents on February 3, 2026
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