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On Professor Amar’s birthday, the Wall Street Journal gives the Saturday Essay over to Professor Amar for this unusually personal account that introduces many of the deep implications of the profound idea of Lincoln, the Reconstruction, and Professor Amar’s new book project, Born Equal.

The National Constitution Center’s Interactive Constitution has interpretive essays on all clauses in the Constitution.  Here, Professor Amar writes on – what else? – the birthright citizenship clause.

President Lincoln issues the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, with important differences from what we have come to know as the great document itself.

And the momentous day arrives on January 1, 1863, as Lincoln makes final the glorious act, with important though subtle refinements from the draft.