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Field name | Value |
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Collection Reference Number | GLC01265.38 |
From Archive Folder | Civil war loyalty pamphlets |
Title | The Amendment of the federal Constitution : an Address Before the Christian Association for National Reformation, of Southern Illinois by James Wallace, in Rev. S. Wylie's Church, Eden, November 8, 1864 |
Date | 1865 |
Author | Wallace, James (1810-1877) |
Document Type | Pamphlet |
Content Description | Argues that the constitution needs to be amended "so as to become the fundamental law of a christian republican government." States that when the Southern states seceded from the Union, they were not only rejecting the authority of the Constitution, but were rejecting the authority of God. |
Subjects | US Constitution Religion Government and Civics US Constitutional Amendment Civil War Secession Government and Civics Law Confederate States of America |
People | Wallace, James (1810-1877) |
Place written | St. Louis, Missouri |
Theme | Religion; Government & Politics; Law |
Sub-collection | The Gilder Lehrman Collection, 1860-1945 |
Copyright | The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History |
Module | Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945 |