Lincoln's Constitution: From the Civil War Amendments to the Warren Court October 29, 2009

The Civil War Amendments caused a constitutional revolution in civil rights and civil liberties, in the relations between the nation and the states, and in the power and authority of the Supreme Court. But this fundamental reconstruction of the Constitution took a century to manifest itself. Why was this revolution so long deferred, and why and how did the Warren Court, in the middle of the 20th century, build a new constitutional order on amendments ratified in the middle of the 19th?