Key events that shaped law and society:
| "There was a wager of law, as well as of battle, and ... the question was decided against us." - Edmund Goode, in Mississippi's 1865 constitutional convention “I do desire we shall use the opportunities we now
have to our best advantage, as we may not ever have a more propitious
time. We know when the old aristocracy
and ruling power of this State get into power, as they undoubtedly will … they
will never pass such a law as this.” - Francis Cardozo, in South Carolina’s 1868 constitutional
convention |