1. Five Stages of Constitutional Development
The next stage of constitutional development is the Civil War Era, or it really should be called the Post-Civil War Era since everything significant that happened to the Constitution occurred after or as a result of the Civil War. After the Union was officially victorious in the war in 1865, President Lincoln made it his first order of business to outlaw the sole activity that the war was being fought over, which was the act of slavery. ... As the Civil War Era came to an end, there wouldn't be any more major constitutional developments until a ways down the road and into the early 1900s...
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