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The great problems facing the nation when the Fourteenth Amendment was being adopted were social and political rather than economic in the narrower sense of the word. The debates in Congress, the discussions in the various State legislatures, and the political campaigns before the people in 1866 and 1868 clearly reveal the motives underlying the making of that provision. It was a part of the great problem of reconstruction and had for its immediate purpose social and political readjustment in the South according to the theories of the party in power. It was a war amendment in that it attempted to conserve the results of the victory.
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Collins, C.W. (1974). The Corporations and the Twilight Zone. In: The Fourteenth Amendment and the States. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-1442-5_9
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