CAC in the News

David Gans of the Constitutional Accountability Center has posted his draft on SSRN, forthcoming in the Stanford Law Review. Here is the abstract: This Article tells the forgotten story of the Black Conventions of the Reconstruction era, examining convenings of Black Americans across the nation during the time when the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments were under consideration. Invoking the promises of liberty and equality contained in the Declaration of Independence, these conventions insisted on Black Americans’ right to respect and dignity, fought for control of their bodies and their right to be full members of the body politic, including at the...