The Journal of the Joint Committee of Fifteen on Reconstruction —— 39th Congress, 1865-1867

----- 十五届重建联合委员会期刊

ISBN: 9781331014362 出版年：2016 页码：414 Benj B Kendrick Forgotten Books

The chief measure that was evolved within this com mittee was the fourteenth amendment to the Constitution, and the journal kept by the committee's clerk is by far the most important source Of information concerning the pro cess by which the framers Of that amendment arrived at the conclusions which they submitted to Congress. Since the manuscript Copy Of this journal has come recently into my possession, my experience in finding it calls for a few? Words Of explanation.