America\u27s Counterrevolution - Unlearned Lessons

America\u27s Counterrevolution - Unlearned Lessons is about America\u27s social revolution -which saw this nation change from a state that constitutionally sanctioned human degradation in the form of slavery and segregation, into one that enshrined in its basic charter human rights and guarantees of equality before the law for all persons. The revolution, in what Justice Marshall calls our system of constitutional government , made our legal system the wonder of the world, which others constantly seek to emulate. In order to understand what is required of Americans as they find themselves in this counterrevolutionary period with respect to civil rights, there must first be an understanding of the nation\u27s racial history and the role that law has played in that history. There are signs that the counterrevolution has been overtaken by positive developments during the past year. If this continues, the unlearned lessons may become the learned lessons. And every American will be the better for it

Foreword

The articles in this issue of The Freedom Center Journal are timely challenges to the persistent efforts to undermine the American values enshrined in the Preamble of the Constitution and the body of the Constitution itself with its three Civil War Amendments. The student editors of this volume intended the selected contributions to offer readers a nuanced view of our nation’s current identity crisis. The collection is offered in the hope that it will encourage further thinking and discussion about what it means to be part of the American experiment with democratic self-governance in an age of resurgent white supremacy