Peer reviewedERIC Number: EJ360238
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Publication Date: 1987
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Race and the Constitution.
Marshall, Thurgood
Social Policy, v18 n1 p29-31 Sum 1987
The Constitution is a living document whose meaning was not fixed forever at the Philadelphia Convention. Focuses on the slavery compromise and the Fourteenth Amendment to demonstrate defects of the document and its promising evolution through 200 years of American history. (PS)
Descriptors: Blacks, Civil Liberties, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Racial Discrimination, Slavery, United States History
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Laws, Policies, & Programs: Fourteenth Amendment; United States Constitution
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