After the Civil War, the founders’ mistrust of strong federal government yielded to radical Republicans’ demands for a central government powerful enough to protect the newly-won liberties of freedmen.
Read James MacPherson’s: RECONSTRUCTION: THE SECOND AMERICAN REVOLUTION
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