Example sentences for: postbellum

How can you use “postbellum” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • It testifies to the government’s beginning to conceive of itself as an aggressive agent charged not only with winning a total war against states in insurrection but also with taking charge of the postbellum constitutional order that would be based on different premises from the social order of freedom and fear of government.

  • Accepting his idea of a “new nation dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal” would have enabled Americans to negotiate the postbellum period without self-seeking and rancor.

  • The question of the black franchise became associated with the fears of Democrats that a coalition of freedmen and Republicans would dominate the postbellum South.

  • Yet, Black ignores the cardinal values of equality and democracy, which, along with nationhood, represent the cornerstones of the postbellum legal order.

  • One basic value remains curiously absent from those enthroned in the postbellum legal order.


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