“The Consolidation of State Power via Reconstruction: 1865-1890”

 

Journal of Libertarian Studies
Volume 16, no. 2 (Spring 2002), pp. 139–161
2002 Ludwig von Mises Institute
http://www.mises.org
THE CONSOLIDATION OF STATE POWER VIA RECONSTRUCTION, 1865–1890
by: Thomas J. DiLorenzo

All radical schemes to reconstruct the South entailed
some more or less permanent expansion of central state
activity and expenditures.
– Richard Bensel, Yankee Leviathan

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