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October 25th 2006 • Printer version  DEMOCRACY REBORN
On October 12, 2006, UO law professor Garrett Epps inaugurated his tenure as
Hollis Professor
of Law with a public lecture that explained his theory that the enactment of the
Fourteenth Amendment marks a "second founding" of the American Republic after
the failure of the
Constitution of 1787.
His remarks drew on his recent book,
Democracy Reborn: The Fourteenth Amendment and the Fight for Equal Rights in
Post-Civil War America.
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